THE MAISON DE LA PAIX

 

 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.

 

POPE FRANCIS RECEIVES THE VOLUME "NOSTRO MARE NOSTRO" BY MICHELE CAPASSO WITH THE PREFACE OF CARDINAL PAROLIN

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Rome | 18 June 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Pope Francis received the volume Nostro Mare Nostro donated by president Michele Capasso.
The Pope wanted to share the gift received with the section "Migrants and Refugees" directed by the Under-Secretary P. Fabio Baggio C.S. which underlined how "the foreword of the Eminent Cardinal Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, wisely highlights the commitment - first of all of life and then of narration - of the author Michele Capasso, which is inscribed in the rejection of the logic of waste and globalization of indifference, in the hope that the Mediterranean Sea can become a frontier of peace".
President Capasso thanked the Pope and said he was flattered that this appreciation took place on the eve of the Pope's trip to Naples, in which themes coherent with the thirty-year-old action that Capasso himself leads unstoppably - at the head of the Fondazione Mediterraneo - will be addressed. for the promotion of dialogue, hybridisation and peace in the Mediterranean.

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EUROMESCO ANNUAL CONFERENCE

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Barcelona | 18 June 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The EuroMeSCo Annual Conference was held in Barcelona which brought together over 160 researchers, decision-makers, academics and representatives of civil society from 25 countries in the Euro-Mediterranean area to analyze the main issues that are at the basis of Euro-Mediterranean relations.
This conference also examined the policies and strategies developed by the southern Mediterranean countries towards the EU and other partners.
The conference was organized by the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMed)
The Fondazione Mediterraneo, co-founder of the network, and the Anna Lindh Italia Federation participated in the work.

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THE POPE IN NAPLES SPEAKS ABOUT MIGRANTS, PEACE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN

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Naples | 21 June 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The president Michele Capasso with Don Giadio De Biasio does not hide the emotion: "To hear the Pope speak of hybridisation, of the theology of the context and of dignity and fraternity leaves a sign because on these themes we have already been confronted 30 years ago and then in the Forum Civil Euromed of Naples (1997), when very few dealt with the Mediterranean. Today Pope Francis confirms that our ideas and our proposals were forerunners of the times. It is significant that precisely from Naples the Pope makes a strong appeal for a theology of welcome based on dialogue and proclamation and that contributes to building a fraternal society among the peoples of the Mediterranean".
The Pope is in Naples for the meeting on "Theology after Veritatis Gaudium in the Mediterranean context", promoted by the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy - San Luigi section - Naples.
«How to feed a tolerant and peaceful coexistence that translates into authentic fraternity? How can the acceptance of the other and of those who are different from us prevail in our communities because they belong to a religious and cultural tradition different from ours? How can religions be ways of brotherhood rather than walls of separation? ". From the Posillipo hill overlooking the sea, these questions are intended to act as an incipit in the intervention that Pope Francis addresses to the listeners hidden under white umbrellas to shelter from the heat of the sun of Naples.
The large white stage in the square of a university, that of the headquarters of the Theological Faculty of Southern Italy, conceived as a bottomless box that frames the space of the Mare Nostrum in the distance, the "sea of ​​miscegenation", gives an idea of ​​that which wants to signify today this meeting of the Pope in this context: a door wide open to foster new perspectives of brotherhood between cultures and religions and horizons for a "theological pentecost", a renewal of ecclesiastical studies leading to a theology linked to reality, practice, of welcome, because even "doing theology is an act of mercy". A workshop for the meeting.
To open the work of the Naples conference with Pope Francis was Father Pino Di Luccio, dean of the San Luigi section of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy, greeting the Pontiff. «In the past few months they have asked me how I convinced them to come back and participate in this conference. I think it's a special gift of the Holy Spirit ". 

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GREAT PARTY FOR THE CRUISE ROME AND FOR THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PORTS OF CIVITAVECCHIA AND BARCELONA

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Civitavecchia | 01 July 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

President Michele Capasso took part in the presentation ceremony of the Grimaldi Group's "Cruise Roma" extension work: a true masterpiece of naval engineering.
On this occasion, in the presence of the president of the Emanuele Grimaldi Group, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the port of Barcelona and that of Civitavecchia.

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AWARDING CEREMONY OF THE MARE NOSTRUM AWARD 2019

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Civitavecchia | 01 July 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The awarding ceremony for the 12th Edition of the "Mare Nostrum Award 2019" took place in Civitavecchia, on the "Cruise Roma" ship of the Grimaldi Group.
Created by "Grimaldi Magazine" Mare Nostrum Awards is dedicated to the promotion of the Motorways of the Sea. The objective is to enhance this exceptional opportunity for exchanges, connections and sustainable development for all Mediterranean countries.
The prize pool of the Mare Nostrum Awards amounts, as every year, to 50,000 euros divided between the top five winners that this year are:

  • Francisco Alcaide, for the article entitled "Taking the Broad".
  • Sarra Belguith, for the article "Women of the sea in Tunisia".
  • Giorgios Grigoriadis, for the article "Daniela: the youngest truck driver is only 24 years old".
  • Aldo Torchiaro, for the article “The cruise? It is more and more love boat ”.
  • Rosa Maria Delli Quadri, for the article "The first motorways of the sea and Mediterranean tourism in the nineteenth century".

The special prize "Cavaliere del Lavoro Guido Grimaldi", established by the Grimaldi family, was recognized to journalist Sergio Luciano, director of the monthly "Economy".
The International Jury of the Award is composed of leading exponents of journalism and culture.
President is Bruno Vespa supported, among others, by Vassiliki Armogeni, Greek journalist of Efoplistis magazine, Michele Capasso, President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Diana De Feo, RAI journalist, Mimmo Jodice, photographer, Paul Kyprianou, former President of RoRo European Shipowners, Rosalba Giugni, president of Marevivo.
The Secretary of the Award is Luciano Bosso, journalist and director of the magazine Grimaldi Magazine Mare Nostrum.
On this occasion the "Cruise Roma" ship was inaugurated in its extended version and a memorandum of understanding was signed between the ports of Barcelona and Civitavecchia.
The XIIIth edition of the Mare Nostrum Awards will be launched in September 2019 and will end in April 2020.
The related announcement will be available - starting next September - in the offices of the regional Order of journalists and on the sites www.grimaldi.napoli.it and www.grimaldi-lines.com.

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