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.

 

THE DEATH OF FARID BELKHAIA: THE FONDATION REMEBERS FARID WITH AFFECTION

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Marrakech | 26 September 2014
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The morrocan painter Farid Belkahia dead yesterday  at the age of eighty, after a long illness in his Marrakech city. Belkahia was one of the precursors of contemporary art in Morocco. He spent part of his childhood in Amezmiz, in the Marrakech region, heavily impregnated by his father, Mohamed Belkahia, who was part of the official delegation of interpreter at the inauguration of the Grand Mosque in Paris in 1926. Mhamed Belkahia has attended artistic environments and had different painters friends, including Anthony, Olek, Jeanine Teslar e Nicolas de Staël. Farid Belkahia was also introduced to painting at Olek Tlesar labs. Belkahia realizes her first oil portraits since he was 15 years old. In 1954 he organized his first exhibition at Hotel Mamounia, before flying to Paris to continue his studies at the School of Fine Arts in the French capital. The artist returned to Morocco in 1962, where he directed the School of Fine Arts in Casablanca until 1974 before deciding to devote himself entirely to his art. Farid is married to writer Rajae Benchemsi, from whom she had her daughter Fanou. Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari wish to express their condolences to the family, remembering the good times we spent together with Farid.

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FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO HAS BEEN APPOINTED OF MEDAL OF HONOUR BY KUWAIT AMBASSADOR ALI KHALID AL SABAH

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Napoli | 25 September 2014
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Kuwait ambassador in Rome Sheikh Ali Khalid Al-Jaber Al-Sabah visited Napoli based Fondazione Mediterraneo in order to organize the next visit of  S.A. Sheikh Nasser Al-Sabah. During the meeting between Kuwait diplomatic and Foundation’s President Michele Capasso, who  hosted him with the prof. Antonio Capuano, the Foundation has been appointed of the Medal of Honour in occasion of the celebration of Kuwait’s 50° anniversary.

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PRESIDENT CAPASSO IN VISIT TO SERMIG

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Torino | 19 September 2014
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, greeted by Ernesto Olivero and Andrea Bisacchi, visited the headquarters of the Arsenal of Peace in Turin created by the SERMIG.
"It 's a thrill being able to touch the GOODNESS WELL DONE - said Capasso - and the work of Ernesto Olivero and SERMIG’s firends - in Italy, Brazil and Jordan - is the proof of the" Power of Love”.

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THE BOOK OF "WOMEN ALGERIA" BY GLORIA MARINA BELLELLI WILL BE PRESENTED AT SUDD FOUNDATION

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Napoli | 17 September 2014
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Antonio Bassolino, Gianfranco Verderame and Enzo Amendola presents at "Fondazione Sudd" the book written by Gloria Marina Bellelli "The Algeria Woman".
The Mediterraneo Foundation support this evento.

" In the preface by Anna Maria Cossiga you understand how the book traces the troubled history of Algeria seen through the eyes of women: "the struggle to put an end to French colonialism; the socialist period and the one dramatic of Islamist terrorism; the policy of national reconciliation initiated in 2005.it also adds a new facet and particularly relevant emphasizing the essential contribution of Algerian women that, challenging the strict Muslim tradition, and often their own families, have taken up arms and have turned to underground for the sake of their country.
These are the women who re-tell the story of Algeria, through fragments of personal memory now joyful and nostalgic, now loads of violence which, unfortunately, often accompanies the struggles for liberation and democracy. The heroines of these pages come from various sectors of society and not just they tell us the story of a country, but also the story of the condition of women in the country. Tortured and raped in the name of freedom and human rights, they have been forgotten by the same policy which so much of their lives have dedicated."

THE MEDITERRANEO FOUNDATION JOINS AND SUPPORTS THE YOUTH MEETING FOR PEACE

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Napoli | 16 September 2014
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Fondazione Mediterraneo - with its networks, remote offices, the autonomous sections, the "House of Peace", the "House of the Arab Maghreb", the "Maison de la Méditerranée" - adheres to and supports the "4th World Meeting of youth for Peace"organized by SERMIG in Naples October 4th, 2014, Feast of San Francesco.
During a meeting in Turin with Ernesto Olivero - on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of SERMIG - the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso and manager of "Youth and Creativity" Pia Molinari shared the spirit of this important event which will see in Naples a thousands of young people from different countries around the world to spread their thoughts, their complaint to the rulers and powerful often regardless to what is happening today.
"Our goal - says Ernesto Olivero - is to give voice to young people, to their needs, their fears, their hopes. We will read a "Letter to the consciousness" born of the encounter with suffering: it is the cry of the young people who have lost their trust in institutions and they feel humiliated by history. This letter is born from the tears of those who are afraid to live in a society without principles, ideals and shared values​​; from the pain of the homeless welcomed in our arsenals; from the anger of those who were forced to leave their country; from the humiliation of rejected, of downtrodden, of no-face. Of those who have lost any hope in life and in others. "
"Fondazione Mediterraneo - says Michele Capasso - could not but fraternize to Ernesto Olivero and the SERMIG, the sharing values​​, actions, perspectives and hopes. What is happening these days in Iraq, Syria, Palestine and other parts of the world is a sign of ethics and moral decadence and a crisis of values​​, rather than economic: all over the world, from Europe to the United States, to the Middle East, to Asia, corrupt individuals, greedy, amoral spread their power, trampling human dignity. Our common aim must be that of transform this "Love of Power" in the indispensable "Power of Love" as Ernesto says, "Consciousness is witnessing with their lives rather than with words." The appointment in Naples is a key step of this path in order to give back to young people the role of "Manufacturers and protectors of our future."

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