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.

 

THE FOUNDATION PARTICIPATES IN THE EVENT OF THE SUN 24 ORE - "QUALITY OF LIFE: THE FUTURE OF CITIES BEYOND THE PANDEMIC"

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Milan | 14 December 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

From the wounds of the pandemic to a new model of quality of life. On the occasion of the 31st edition of the survey on the Italian provinces, Il Sole 24 Ore proposed a laboratory of ideas on relaunching the territories after the health emergency. “The future of cities beyond the pandemic” is the theme around which public administrators and experts in urban innovation and social policies met. The leitmotif of the debate was the new priority agenda generated by the Covid-19 crisis: health and culture, digitalization and big data, sustainable mobility and smart working, rethinking of urban centers and proximity services in neighborhoods.
President Michele Capasso participated in the webinar event highlighting "how an interconnected world requires coordinated management, united visions but respectful of diversity. Science continues to decipher ever new forms of bonds and connections - outside, in the Fourth Environment - and also inside our planet. The human adventure, that of homo sapiens, took off a few tens of thousands of years ago with the so-called "cognitive revolution" which gave rise to collaborations and common phenomena.
Today we know - said Capasso - that all living beings have deep ties, both among themselves and with other forms of coexistent life. Plants are interconnected, messages and warnings are sent. So the birds in their flocks, the fish in their schools. Matter itself in its deep structure, the same forces and energy fields that sustain it ignore the barriers between organic and inorganic. These bonds are not exclusive to categories, systems or groups: they dialogue, condition, intertwine. At the basis of the creativity of Sapiens there is not self-centeredness, but collaboration: the future of humanity will be played on this".

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"INTERNATIONAL MEDITERRANEAN DAY" ANNOUNCED

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Barcelona | 28 December 2020
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The creation of the International Mediterranean Day was announced at the end of 2020 to be celebrated on the 28 November, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the Barcelona Process, which laid the foundations of the UfM. On this occasion, 4 logos of the day were proposed which will be submitted to the vote of the main actors.
President Michele Capasso - who with the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been one of the protagonists of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership since 1990 and one of the main players in the Barcelona Process - expressed his satisfaction with this decision, recalling that the first proposal was approved at "II FORUM CIVILE EUROMED "held in Naples in December 1997. Similarly, Capasso expressed his appreciation for the proposed logos, communicating to the UfM the choice of the Mediterranean Foundation and the Anna Lindh Federation of the first logo depicting the olive branch, recalling a phrase by Braudel that said "the Mediterranean exists where the olive tree grows".

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NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT CAPASSO

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Naples | 01 January 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The president of the Mediterranean Foundation, prof. Michele Capasso, like everybody, has sent a message for the new year 2021 entitled “All united we will sing”.
In the message, President Capasso retraced the example of his father Raffaele - for 35 years mayor of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio and architect of the reconstruction after the eruption of Vesuvius in 1944 that destroyed the town - underlining similarities with the current difficult moment due to the worldwide pandemic of the Coronavisus which requires everyone and without distinction to work UNITED with the spirit of MANUFACTURERS for the COMMON GOOD.
"The culture of care - concluded President Capasso - constitutes the moral obligation these days: CARE for creation, CARE for the person, CARE for social relations, CARE for the other, CARE for the COMMON GOOD".

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54th WORLD DAY OF PEACE

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Vatican City | 01 January 2021
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On the occasion of the celebration of the "54th WORLD DAY OF PEACE", the Holy Father Francis sent a message on the theme "THE CULTURE OF CARE AS A PATH OF PEACE".
The president of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso expressed himself on the same theme in his message for the new year.

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