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 IS CLOSE TO THE VICTIMS OF TERRORISTIC ATTACKS

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Napoli | 27 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The past Friday was a tragic day for the international community as a whole and especially for the family and friends of the almost 100 victims of the four terrorist attacks committed in Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait and France. From the FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO we want to express our solidarity with all those affected, as well as condemn these brutal attacks from jihadi terrorists that use the name of Islam to justify acts that have little to do with the Muslim religion and its believers. In these difficult moments we must maintain the Mediterranean community united and solidary, avoid social alarm and islamophobic acts that can only lead us to a greater radicalization and violence. Despite the pain, we must maintain our courage and determination against all terrorist attacks.

THIRTY YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP WITH THE PINK CITY

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Marrakech | 16 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On the 16th of June1985 the president Michele Capasso visited Marrakech for the first time.
Among the many memories, events and activities carried out in these thirty years in “the pink” city there were: Cinemamed, Medpride, the events of the Anna Lindh Foundation, the conventions, conferences and activities of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Marrakech Centre: and there was also the 10th anniversary of the “Chaire Averroès Unesco of High Mediterranean Studies”.
Capasso has remembered the many Moroccan friends: from Mohamed Knidiri to the Ahmed Jebli mourning, Farid Belchaia to Said and Zora Margoul.

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FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO SENDS A MESSAGE OF PEACE IN OCCASION OF RAMADAN

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Roma | 18 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

“Fondazione Mediterraneo wishes to all Muslims a happy Ramadān. Ramadān Karim”. The president Michele Capasso declares today, at the beginning of Ramadān, the ninth month of the year of the Islamic calendar, during which the Muslims practice the fast (sawm) which is one of the pillar of Islam. According to the Islamic tradition, in fact, the Ramadān marks the revelation of the Quran to men, since the 27th the evening of the month, (Laylat-al-Qadr, the night of the power), when the sacred text was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by Archangel Gabriel.


“We receive the beginning of the Ramadān with joy and respect. On the contrary of the Islamic fundamentalist movements which spread hate and violence in Middle East and the West mistaking the sense of the Islamic religion, there is a “pure” Islam represented by thousands of Muslims and which affirms the respect of other religions, bringing a  universal message of peace. We keep on in our engagement - Capasso concludes - in favour of the inter-religious dialogue proposing solutions capable of assuring the identification of the other and the mutual cohabitation”.

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THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO IS IN GRIEF FOR FOUAD ALLAM, ONE OF THE FIRST FOUNDERS OF THE INSTITUTION

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Roma | 10 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On Wednesday 10 June Khaled Fouad Allam tragically left us in a hotel in Rome, after have been affected by a sudden illness.
He was an Algerian sociologist who worked in the University of the Studies of Trieste, and was also deputy for the Ulivo political party in 2006, during the XIV legislature.
I still remember the first time that I saw him. It was 1994 and along with Predrag Matvejevic', Claudio Magris, Vittorio Nisticò, Igor Man, Nedim Gursel, Gerardo Marotta and other friends we prepared the programs of the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the initiatives in favour of the populations of Ex-Yugoslavia, affected by one of the greatest tragedies after the second world war.
Fouas was immediately one of us: with his great knowledge that was also method and was accompanied by intellectual honesty, first of all, it was impossible to induce the people to compare with superiority in confronts of the others.
He was an extremely cordial person and his strong French accent was a characteristic of his speeches.
Khaled Fouad Allam has been an example of dialogue, peace, intellectual and moral integrity. In spite of his tragical death, the lessons he gave to use are still valid, and these lessons were spreaded not only through  his job – the University, the conferences, the political activity, the conventions – but also through his behaviour, always calm, respectful, competent, opened towards the highest manifestations of the humanity and critic regarding every form of discrimination or violence.
We will keep the heritage which he has left to us.

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THE BOOK LA GRANDE MÉDITERRANÉE TO MARRAKECH

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Marrakech | 12 June 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

During  a meeting between the president Michele Capasso, the president of the UCAM Abdellatif Miraoui and the vice president Bougadir Blaïd the decision of print a special edition of the book "La Grande Méditerranée" has been taken. The new edition will include the lectio magistralis of president Capasso and the relative notes and will be dedicated to students and professors of the University of Cadi Ayyad.

 

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