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CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development. The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace. The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts. Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the “Maison des Alliances” – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace. The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace". The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples. The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013). The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée. |
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01 January 2016
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
On World Peace Day, the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo launched - as a yet another bottle in the ocean - a heartfelt appeal for peace in Syria and Libya, proposing the text published in September 2013 on the occasion of the Euromed Civil Forum Brussels.
Particularly in Libya, President Capasso emphasized the “continuing chaos in the country and the vicious circle which has torn the hopes of dialogue and peace.
“Reads among other things in the text of the statement Capasso - Libya is immersed in a second vicious civil war. The country is divided between two governments that fight for the control of power and oil. In this fight there is a particular fragmentation factor: tribalism. All involved actors - militias, Islamist groups and even the two governments - seek tribal support. However, the impossibility of Libya to become a nation is not due to tribalism but, on the contrary, it is strengthened because the state is totally absent. On the other side, the involvement of countries such as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt is a further key element, to the point of talking about indirect regional war. "
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18 November 2015
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
The Panel for the Euromed Award for dialogue among cultures met to decide the theme for 2016. The composition of the Jury President: the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Anna Lindh Foundation, Estonia, Lebanon, Algeria, Bosnia, Lithuania, and the Netherlands.
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13 November 2015
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
"An unprecedented terrorist attack besieged Paris, less than a year after Charlie Hebdo's massacre, on the night of November 13, 2015. A commando of suicide bombers hit six times in 33 minutes, firing at the crowd, in the street and in the premises, especially among young people who were spending the Friday night out of the house. An attack of unprecedented terrorists in France: at least 129 dead and over 300 wounded, including Italian Valeria Solesin.
A plunder in the heart of Europe that calls for the conscience of all of us to urgent action for dialogue and for peace. "
These were the words of President Michele Capasso right after learning the news of the serious villains attacked.
To President Hollande and all the French friends of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and its networks - Mediterranean Academy, Euromedcity and Almamed - the condolences and closeness of the members of the Foundation and the heads of the various sections.
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09 November 2015
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
President Michele Capasso intervened - with Mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando and Ambassador of Japan Kazuyoshi Umemoto at the show "La Sicilia embrace Japan" hosted at the Teatro Biondo in Palermo.
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27 September 2015
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
"It was nice to meet President Mattarella on the staircase of the Church of Santa Maria del Parto in Mergellina: my church, where Father Antonio spreads feelings of peace and dialogue for years," said Capasso's commentary shortly after the casual meeting.
President Mattarella is on official visit to Naples for the inauguration of the School Year at Sannino di Ponticelli and for the commemoration of the "Four Days".
