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 President Michele Capasso spoke to Gilles Kepel Conference held at the University of Naples Federico II.
Gilles Kepel (1955), political scientist, member of the Fondazione Mediterraneo has orientalist and academician French specialist on Islam and the Arab world. Graduated in Arabic, philosophy, doctorate in sociology and political science, is director of the chair "Moyen-Orient Méditerranée" at the Institute for Political Studies in Paris, also scientific director of the first cycle on the Middle East, the Mediterranean Institute of Political Studies Mentone.
He has taught at New York University and Columbia University.

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So he spoke President Michele Capasso return from Egypt. In various published articles, testified the flaws in the Egyptian system to cover the atrocities of the Egyptian intelligence services have certainly tortured and killed the young Italian, just because he defended the rights of the weakest and workers through the punctuality of its searches.

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The Fondazione Mediterraneo - with the president, the heads of the independent sections, the OMCOM, the Peace Museum - MAMT, the members of the Board and the International Scientific Committee - is close to the families of victims of the terrorist attack in Brussels and expresses our deepest condolences.
At the same time - as well as repeated for 25 years in all locations and all actions (just the latest "Peace Museum") - it is indispensable and imperative to take action at global design not only able to militarily counter terrorism but to prevent it through concerted initiatives in the social, religious and cultural.
Dialogue and mutual respect are the only response possible to build and, above all, keep the peace.

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