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.

 

LAMPEDUSA: APPEAL TO EUROPE CONSCIENCE

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Vilnius | 04 October 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

In occasion of the meeting of Union for Mediterranean, at the presence of general secretary of UPM Fatallah Sijilmassi, high functionaries of European Union, and ambassadors of 43 Euromediterranean countries, president Michele Capasso renewed the Appeal for Lampedusa and his refugees, launched by Fondazione Mediterraneo on the 8 july 2013, in occasion of the visit of Francis Pope to the island.
The appeal sadly recalled the tragedy happened once again for the lackness of a clear European policy about migration and refugees right.

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE EUROMESCO NETWORK

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Parigi | 03 October 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Annual General and Extraordinary Meeting of the “Euromesco” network of international politics institutes took place at the Paris.

On that occasion, the Activities Report was discussed and approved as was the Report on the Action Plan for 2013-2014. Prof. Bichara Khader was confirmed as President of the Steering Committee, Director of the Centre of Studies and Research on the Contemporary Arab World (Belgium) and member of the Fondazione Mediterraneo.

The Fondazione Mediterraneo has been a member of Euromesco since 2006 and attended the Assembly thanks to the participation of it's President Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari, who suggested drafting a summary weekly Newsletter – with one page in English, one in French, Arabic, Russian and Chinese, respectively to be disseminated worldwide.

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EIGHTH EDITION OF SUMMER SCHOOL PROCIDA “CULTURAL ENTERPRISE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. HISTORIANS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN. TODAY”

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Procida | 30 September 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

It took place in Procida – in the Conservatory of the Orphans, home of the University of Naples L’Orientale - the Eighth Annual Summer School Procida “Cultural Enterprise in the Mediterranean. Historians and the Mediterranean. Today”.
With it has initiated a series of seminars and workshops held by scholars and historians from various disciplines and international prestige, on topics relating to the history of the Mediterranean. The story, that is, a space in which people are accustomed to live collective lives and to meet and clash, to get lost and find themselves, stratifying and composing.
The speakers were: Michele Capasso, president of Fondazione Mediterraneo, Maurice Aymard, Conservatory of Orphans, Caterina de Vivo, an expert in the management of environmental and cultural heritage in marine protected areas in the Mediterranean.

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POPE FRANCIS MEETS THE UNEMPLOYED IN SARDEGNA: “GIVE WORK FOR GIVE DIGNITY” IN SARDINIA: “GIVE WORK AND GIVE DIGNITY” (2)

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Cagliari | 22 September 2013
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Pope during his visit to Sardinia has improvised a prayer focused on the job:

“Lord God, look at us, look at this city, this island, view our families, you did not miss the job, you’ve done a carpenter and you were happy. Lord there is no work, idols want our dignity, unjust systems they want to steal our hope, Lord, do not leave us alone, please help us help among us, that we forget a bit of selfishness and feel in our hearts the us, we are a people who want to get ahead. Lord Jesus which did not fail the job give us work and teach us to fight for the job, and bless us all”.

 

“It’s easy to say do not lose hope, why I tell you: do not steal the hope, which is like the embers under the ashes, let us help blowing together, because the fire is”.

Pope Francis has addressed these words to the workers of companies in crisis. “This - he said - is not optimism, hope we all know, we have to support it all together, it’s ours and yours”. “The lack of work - said the Pope - is not a problem of Sardinia, even if it is strong here, but is the consequence of a world, of an economic system that leads to this tragedy, an economic system that has to center an idol which is called money”.

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