Maison de la Paix || Casa Universale delle Culture (EN)

 

 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.

 

APPEAL OF THE FOUNDATION: STOP TO THE MIGRANTS SLAUGHTER!

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Napoli | 29 August 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

“The slaughters of migrants which transformed the Mediterranean sea in a bloody sea is a burden on the consciences of whom are unable to find a solution because of their personal interests.
These are the words pronounced by president Capasso in the aftermath of Mediterranean tragedy. And he pronounced also an appeal to Europe “ so it stops with its indifference and insensibility”.
The Fondazione praised the appeal of President Obama, the involvement of the General Secretary of Onu Ban ki-moon made with the aim to organize a meeting of State Leaders by the end of September: but now is the moment of act and struggle against human traffickers and their supporters.

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THE FOUNDATION EXPRESSES ITS GRIEF FOR THE MURDER OF KHALED AL-ASAAD

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Palmira | 19 August 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The president Michele Capasso, the members of the International scientific board and the men in charge of the foundation foreign branches express their grief for the cruel murder of  Khaled Al-Asaad, the famous archaeologist which cooperated with the Foundation in order to support and valorize the archeological site of Palmyra, heritage of the humanity. “We pay homage to the Guardians of Palmyra” – affirmed the President Capasso -  and we are against cruelty, barbarity and slaughters. The Museum of Peace MAMT will remember Palmyra and the prof. Al-Asaad”

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CELEBRATION OF THE 20° ANNIVERSARY OF EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP

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Barcellona | 22 July 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Between the 22 and the 23 July 2015, for initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation  of Spain and the Union for the Mediterranean (UpM), a high profile meeting about intercultural and interreligious dialogue took place in the Headquarters of UpM – in the historical palace of Pedralbes in Barcelona – in collaboration with European Union, Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF), Alliance of Civilizations of United Nations (AoC) and the Center for Intercultural and Interreligious D\ialogue King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz (KAICIID).

“This meeting- declared president Capasso – aimed to celebrate the 20 ° anniversary of the Barcelona Process along to increase the ongoing debate about neighbourhood European policy (PEV) and reply to the increasing importance given to the intercultural and interreligious dialogue in the Euro- Mediterranean as a strong tool in order to reach stability and peace, the struggle against intolerance and extremism and support the values of a pacific cohabitation. This meeting, - declared Capasso – represents an unique occasion in order to value tools and dialogue institutions; we need to reconsider the intercultural and interreligious dialogue as a central aim in the framework of a renewed multilateral politic in the Mediterranean; show a strategy of shared dialogue.

Fondazione Mediterraneo – said in conclusion Capasso – since the 1989 has been in service of the Euromediterranean Partnership becoming character of events, programs and several actions which has left a significant mark (from Euromed Cultural Forum to Euromediterranean Conferences, from Cultural Programs to those for immigration and solidarity).

Today, as 20 years ago, we need:

  1. Increase the awareness of the importance of intercultural and interreligious dialogue;
  2. Increase visibility and resources for program and tools for dialogue in the region;
  3. Establish a network of partners which aim to increase the effects of initiatives with synergies which complete themselves;
  4. Decide an action plan for future activities of the network, on the basis of a common plan and an agenda established upon concrete initiatives and network activities and useful to men and women of the Mediterranean.

Fondazione Mediterraneo will keep on working, as has done in 25 years, in order to support this essential peace and dialogue action”.

 

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AMBASSADOR BREGATO RECEIVES THE BOOK ABOUT THE 25 YEARS OF FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO

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San Marino | 15 July 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

In the Headquarters of Italian Embassy in San Marino, the president Michele Capasso showed to the ambassador Barbara Bregato the book about the 25 years of activity of Fondazione Mediterraneo.
The journalist Paolo Borrometi, the president Salvo Calleri and other important exponents of political word joined the event. The ambassador Bregato praised Fondazione for its role in Euro Mediterranean dialogue and in the Barcellona Process which in these years celebrates its twenty years .

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