THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO AND THE FEDERAZIONE ANNA LINDH ITALIA PARTICIPATE IN THE MASTER CLASS AGAINST RACISM AND DISCRIMINATIONS

Paris | 19 November 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

As part of a collaboration between UNESCO and the Musée, UNESCO launched in November 2019 a series of Master Classes for secondary-school students.
Conceived as spaces for dialogue, they aim to empower young people by strengthening their understanding and capacity to combat discrimination, intolerance, and growing inequalities, as well as promote sustainable impact by engaging youth to become proactive agents of change and trainers within their own schools and communities.
This special edition of UNESCO’s Master Classes against Racism and Discriminations is organized within the framework of World Philosophy Day. It invites young secondary school students to question the prejudices and social stereotypes that lead to racism and discrimination through the critical study of the construction of "the other".
The analysis of racism as a philosophical object will lead these students to deconstruct the concept of "race", decompose their preconceived ideas and adopt innovative anti-racist strategies that they can then implement in their institutions and communities.
In doing so, this Master Class will underline the enduring value of philosophy for the development of human thought for each individual and culture and will support us in the building of a more respectful and tolerant society through collectively exercising reasoned and informed thinking.

Agenda:

• Introduction of the Master Class by Ms Anna Maria Majlöf, Chief a.i. Inclusion and Rights Section of UNESCO
• Presentations and interactive discussions with students:

• Mr Arnaud Demanche, Comedian
• Prof. Carole Reynaud-Paligot, Historian, sociologist, University of Pantheon-Sorbonne 
• Prof. Lazare Ki-Zerbo, Philosopher
• Prof. Rose Boswell, Executive Dean of Arts at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
• Mr Sanele Xaba, Activist and founder of the Rolled Sleeves Outreach Programme
• Moderator: Ms Arleen Pimentel, Permanent Delegation of the Dominican Republic to UNESCO

• Dialogue session to create commitments to be implemented in schools and communities (intervention by the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Federazione Anna Lindh Italia)
• Closing remarks
• Musical interludes by Ms Paloma Fayet 

Objectives of the Master Class:

• Empower young people, through this peer-learning forum, by strengthening their understanding and capacity to combat racism and inequalities;
• Shed light on what underlies issues of racial prejudice and discrimination, and understand how and why they are spread online and offline, in the media, in public space and in all spheres of life;
• Engage youth to become proactive agents of change and trainers within their own schools, families and communities for a sustainable impact;
• Inspire policymakers, at the global, national and local levels, community leaders and teachers, to pursue collective efforts in their fight against racism and discrimination.

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FORUM OF THE UNION FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN: "WOMEN ACTRESSES OF DEVELOPMENT"

Barcelona | 19 November 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Fondazione Mediterraneo, protagonist of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership since 1990, participated in the Forum of the Union for the Mediterranean "with the theme" Women Actresses of Development ".
The webinar event is included in the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the "Barcelona Process".

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THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF "THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE" CELEBRATED AT THE MUSEUM OF PEACE

Naples | 25 November 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Webinar celebrated at the Museum of Peace - MAMT the twenty-fifth anniversary of the "UNITED STATES OF EUROPE" program, launched by the Mediterranean Foundation on November 25, 1995. When it was born thirty years ago, in 1990, the Mediterranean Foundation launched the first idea of ​​the Manifesto on "THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE". After 5 years, on 24 and 25 November 1995, he organized the international conference "THE MEDITERRANEAN AND EUROPE" in Naples with the Appeal for Europe and the Mediterranean presented to the Euro-Mediterranean Foreign Ministers who met for the first time in Barcelona.
The conference was held under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic and with the patronage of the UN was conceived, organized and directed by the Fondazione Laboratorio Mediterraneo. Collaborated: the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies; UNESCO; UNICEF; the Embassies of Albania, Bosnia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Morocco and Spain; the Consulates of France and Germany; the Campania Region; the WWF; Greenpeace Mediterranean; the Carabinieri Ecological Operational Unit; the Turin Book Fair; the Faculty of Art and Science of Rome; the Municipalities of Bari, Genoa, Imperia, Turin, Trieste, Sarajevo and Naples; the Orient Occident Foundation; the Italian Association of Environmental Pathology and Ecology; the University of Naples "Federico II"; the Department of Eastern European Studies of the Oriental University Institute of Naples; the University of Palermo; the La Sorbonne University of Paris; the Institute of the Arab World of Paris; the Department of Studies of Naples; the Committee of Information and Initiatives for Peace of Rome.
President Capasso underlines the relevance of the Appeal because even today, in this difficult moment due to the pandemic, the need for the UNITED STATES OF EUROPE is felt, especially in strategic areas: foreign policy, common defense, health protection, the economy, transport, etc. “Among the dearest memories - concludes the president Capasso - the certificates of esteem of dear friends, such as the great journalist Igor Man, the writer Claudio Magris and others.

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THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO PARTICIPATES IN THE FORUM "TECHNOLOGICAL AND DIGITAL DEVELOPMENTS, WHICH OPPORTUNITIES FOR TUNISIA?"

Tunis | 26 November 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

President Michele Capasso participated in the webinar forum organized by the Political Academy and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung on the theme "Technological and digital developments, what opportunities for Tunisia?".
Participants included Mustapha Mezghani, expert in digital economy and public policy and Coordinator of the URS Digital and Digital Transition at the Tunisian Institute of Strategic Studies (ITES), who greatly contributed to the success of this fruitful discussion webinar. The experts intervened:

• Imed Elabed, President of Infotica, Chambre Syndicale Nationale des SSII, CEO of IT Serv & Keeplina;
• Sofiene Hemissi, Director of Information, Ministry of Local Affairs and Environment, expert at the Tunisian Institute of Strategic Studies, ITES;
• Amel Saidane, President of Tunisian Startups CEO & co-founder of the Tunisian startup Betacube

At the end of this webinar, Ms Doghri thanked on behalf of the Political Academy Forum, Prof. Dr Mohamed-El Aziz Ben Achour, member of the FOAP Scientific Council, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and all participants for their involvement and the richness of their participation in the debate.

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