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 FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO AND THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD GREETS WITH A BEAT OF HANDS PREDRAG MATVEJEVIC', CO-FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE

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Napoli | 02 February 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Fondazione Mediterraneo - president and co-founder Michele Capasso, vice-president Caterina Arcidiacono, head of the institutional traps Claudio Azzolini, members of the Board of Directors and the International Scientific Committee, directors of the Almamed Autonomous Sections, Mediterranean Academy, Isolamed, Labmed and Euromedcity, heads of the branch offices and friends of the Foundation - greets Predrag Matvejevic’ with a heartbeat.
The friend, colleague, writer, essayist, intellectual and dissident Predrag Matvejevic died at the age of 84 in the hospital in Zagreb where he had been admitted for some time.
He has been a committed man from the point of view of human rights Predrag, as well as university lecturer: he has always fought for peace and dialogue between peoples, especially, of course, for those in the Balkans.
Born in Mostar when the city was part of Yugoslavia (then it would become Bosnia-Herzegovina), he also lived in Italy (from 1994 to 2008), where he taught Slavistica at Sapienza of Rome from 1994 to 2007. Previously he had been lecturer in French Literature at the University of Zagreb and in literature compared to the New Sorbonne-Paris III. He had emigrated to France in 1991.
He was a consultant for the Mediterranean in the Group of Wise Men of the European Commission during the Prodi Presidency and among the ideologists of the "Anna Lindh Foundation"; vice-president of the PEN International Club of London; co-founder and president of the scientific committee of our Fondazione Laboratorio Mediterraneo (now the Mediterranean Foundation) with headquarters in Naples.
For his work as a writer he has received numerous awards in Italy and abroad, including the Malaparte Prize in 1991, the European Witch Prize in 2003 and the Prix du Meilleurlivreétranger 1993 in Paris. The French government gave him the Legion of Honor, the President of the Italian Republic awarded him Italian citizenship and the title of Commendatore of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity.
Among his most important works are: "Mediterranean breviary" - translated into various languages - "Sarajevo","A Curse Europe," our bread ".
The Fondazione Mediterraneo and the United States of the World have published several books by its co-founder: among them there are "Diary of a war","On the identities of Europe","The Mediterranean and Europe".
President Capasso, moved, remembers his brother, friend and intellectual with whom he has shared so many battles for over 25 years: for peace, for dialogue, for freedom, for social justice; from the Appeal for Peace in former Yugoslavia to those for Palestine, Syria, Kosovo…

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APPELLO DELLA FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO PER IL DIALOGO INTERRELIGIOSO DOPO L’ATTENTATO IN CANADA (EN)

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Napoli | 30 January 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

“L’attentato contro una moschea in Canada dove terroristi armati di fucili automatici hanno aperto il fuoco all'interno del Centro Culturale Islamico di Quebec City con l’uccisione dell'imam è un campanello ulteriore dall’allarme che deve riunire le coscienze dei governanti del mondo” afferma il presidente Michele Capasso lanciando un appello per la promozione del dialogo interreligioso”.

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THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO EXPRESSES DEEP CONDOLENCES DEATH OF GERARDO MAROTTA, FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTION

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Napoli | 26 January 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

President Michele Capasso, Vice-President Caterina Arcidiacono, the members of the Board of Directors and the International Scientific Committee, the representatives of the autonomous Sections and of the branch offices, express their deep condolences for the death of the lawyer Gerardo Marotta: President of the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies and founder member of the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
From the beginning of the Foundation's activities - born at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies - a deep collaboration was born based on common ideals: from Appelli per la Pace to the Manifesto for the United States of Europe.
A unique common heritage made up of initiatives, publications, events, conferences: the great testimony of a man's vision, Gerardo, who knew how to bring Naples back to the World and the World in Naples under the sign of Philosophy, High Culture, dedication to the Common Good.

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BIOARCHITECTURE: DOING CENTER

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Napoli | 19 January 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Fondazione Mediterraneo with the Order of Architects of Naples organized a meeting of studies on Bioarchitecture.

The occasion is twenty-two years since the first issue of the magazine of Bioarchitecture, born in Bolzano from the need to have "a deeper breath, a broader perspective that looked at man without losing sight of nature, materials, the psychology of living".
State-of-the-art topics in 1994 have become an integral part of the design culture today. Although we are all aware of the need for a systemic and humane approach to building, the technique has taken our hands on us, sometimes far removed from the original intentions.
Issue 100 of the magazine is an opportunity to pick up the threads of the right building by improving competition, legislative and institutional tools.

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MANY PEOPLE VISITING THE MUSEUM

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Napoli | 07 January 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Large influx of visitors to the Museum of Peace - MAMT in the wake of renewed tourist interest for the city of Naples and for Italy in general.
In particular, the objects related to the three religions were appreciated: from the Mosque to the first Synagogue in the Arab world, to the objects and videos on the great protagonists of Christianity and Catholicism.

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