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.

 

BEST PHOTO OF PEACE FOR ALFRED FRIED AWARD FOR PHOTOGRAPHY

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Parigi | 10 February 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Call.

To what does the peace look like?
Is open the call to send contributions to the Photographic Award Alfred Fried, which rewards the best peace themed photography. Are accepted applications from all over the world, unless that the photo represents human efforts for a more peaceful world.


The deadline is for 14 May of 2015, at midnight, Central Europe Time.
The best five proposal will be rewarded with Alfred Fried medal. One of this five photographies will be chosen as peace’s picture of the year, will be rewarded with a 5 000€ amount and beside, will be exposed for one year at Austrian Parliament and included in its permanent art collection.
Introduced every year, on the 21 of September in concomitance with the UN international peace day the award is promoted by UNESCO, Photographic Society, Lammerhuber Publishing, Austrian Parliament, Austrian Parliamentarian Journalist Associations and International Press Institute (IIP). The award is dedicated to Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921), Austrian pacifist artist, winner of Nobel Prize on 1911.
Inaugural edition 2014 of the Alfred Fried Prize has been warmly welcomed by International Photographic Community.
The winner photo and selected in preview have been exposed in UNESCO headquarter in Paris. These photographies, as well as other 320 unique contributions, will been exposed, until March 2015, on the digital wall of new train station Hauptbahnhof Wien in Wien.
For UNESCO art is an important tool of peace. Reorganize the world and reshape it, opening new spaces for dialogue and comprehension.
Photography can strengthen a world peace culture, supporting, transmitting, unifying the world around a peace idea shared by many people.
To send your applications, and for further information, is available the official website of Photography Award Alfred Fried
© Emil Gataullin – The winner of the award Alfred Fried for Photography for 2014 has been  Emil Gataullin (Russia), with a picture taken by its artwork “Towards the horizon”.
Lampedusa, 11 February 2015

THE STRUCTURE FOR THE MEMORIAL MONUMENT DEDICATED TO UNKNOWN MIGRANT HAS BEEN FINISHED

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Napoli | 10 February 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The zinc-coated steel structure of “Totem of Peace” has been realized in GIMA factory and will host the grave of “Unknown Migrant”, in occasion of the “Mediterranean and Migrants Day” (21 March 2015) and the 150° Anniversary of Port Captaincy - Coast Guard. The monumental art work will be installed in front of Naples Stazione Marittima.

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INTERNATIONAL MEETING: EUROPE, MEDITERRANEAN AND MACROREGIONS TOWARDS LEGALITY

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

The meeting took place in Vesuvio Hall of  MAMT Museum.
After the screening of the video about the macro regional proposals and a short recap on the results of  “Giovanni Agnelli Foundation” (1992 – 1996) and “Fondazione Mediterraneo” (1997) results on the opportunity to reduce the number of regions in Italy, the president Michele Capasso and prof. Abdelhak Azzouzi discussed on the topic “Macroregion: an occasion for Europe and Mediterranean”  with a “An Arabian Maghreb: from crises area to development occasion”. Followed: “Legality as element for the development of macroregions”, discussed later dott.  Salvatore Càlleri, Antonino Caponnetto Foundation’s President and counselor of Sicily Region on corruption themes, tenders, and struggle to mafia. “The role in Campania in the new program on Macroregions, between Europe and Mediterranen” has been faced by on. Andrea Cozzolino, European Parliamentar, vicepresident of Parliamentar Commission for regional development.

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