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.

 

During the trip from Bari to Tirana via Durazzo, President Michele Capasso and the artistic director of "Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale" discussed on the ship and on the bus, retracing the history of the Biennale of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean and examined the concrete challenges present to support dialogue and exchanges between young people.

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Among the initiatives of the Fondazione Mediterraneo is that of transmitting the memory of emotions to young Albanian children, such as, for example, a visit to BUNK ART where the recent history of Albania is testified and in particular that of the dark period of the dictatorship that lasted until the beginning of the 1990s of the last century.
The boys between 15 and 16 years old at the end of the visit and meeting with President Capasso shouted a single word: LIVE FREEDOM!

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President Michele Capasso - during several meetings with representatives of the BJCEM (the Biennial of Young Artists) recalled a collaboration started in 1985 on the occasion of the first edition of Barcelona, continued in Salomicco and consolidated in the edition of Turin in 1997. To remind him of many friends: among them Luigi Ractlif and Costa Varotsos.

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The first public meeting of Pope Francis' apostolic journey to Egypt was in the Islamic University of Al-Azhar, where he spoke at the international peace conference and embraced the rector, the Great Imam Al-Tayeb.
This trip - said President Michele Capasso - is of extraordinary importance and Pope Francis is a "giant of dialogue and peace".

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