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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. |
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10 February 2015
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
Call.
To what does the peace look like?
Is open the call to send contributions to the Photographic Award Alfred Fried, which rewards the best peace themed photography. Are accepted applications from all over the world, unless that the photo represents human efforts for a more peaceful world.
The deadline is for 14 May of 2015, at midnight, Central Europe Time.
The best five proposal will be rewarded with Alfred Fried medal. One of this five photographies will be chosen as peace’s picture of the year, will be rewarded with a 5 000€ amount and beside, will be exposed for one year at Austrian Parliament and included in its permanent art collection.
Introduced every year, on the 21 of September in concomitance with the UN international peace day the award is promoted by UNESCO, Photographic Society, Lammerhuber Publishing, Austrian Parliament, Austrian Parliamentarian Journalist Associations and International Press Institute (IIP). The award is dedicated to Alfred Hermann Fried (1864-1921), Austrian pacifist artist, winner of Nobel Prize on 1911.
Inaugural edition 2014 of the Alfred Fried Prize has been warmly welcomed by International Photographic Community.
The winner photo and selected in preview have been exposed in UNESCO headquarter in Paris. These photographies, as well as other 320 unique contributions, will been exposed, until March 2015, on the digital wall of new train station Hauptbahnhof Wien in Wien.
For UNESCO art is an important tool of peace. Reorganize the world and reshape it, opening new spaces for dialogue and comprehension.
Photography can strengthen a world peace culture, supporting, transmitting, unifying the world around a peace idea shared by many people.
To send your applications, and for further information, is available the official website of Photography Award Alfred Fried
© Emil Gataullin – The winner of the award Alfred Fried for Photography for 2014 has been Emil Gataullin (Russia), with a picture taken by its artwork “Towards the horizon”.
Lampedusa, 11 February 2015
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13 February 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
Fondazione Mediterraneo, in Lampedusa in this tragic moment, launched an appeal for the migrants dead in sea, praising the courage of people of Port Captaincy – Guard Coast whom put in risk their lives in order to save other human beings.
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18 January 2015
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Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
After Srebrenica and Paris the president Capasso is in Manila with a delegation from Fondazione Mediterraneo.
“I come here in honeymoon with my dead wife Rita on january 1980 – declared Capasso – but I have never seen a million people human river. A big emotion, a big hope: for the peace, for the future.” According to the data there were about 7 millions devotes which gathered in the 60 hectares of Rizal Park, for the last day of Pope’s visit - says father Federico Lombardi, spokeperson of Vatican. The most followed mass in the history: even more than the four – five million presents for John Paul II, here in Manila, the 15 january 1995, in conclusion of World Youth Day. Before the mass, the Pope met with about 30 thousands youngs in campus of university of Saint Tomas in Manila.
“Are we crying when we are seeing an homeless baby, suffering, abandoned, abused and used by the society as a slave?". If the answer is yes, he asked to youngs, relaunching the question of Jun, ex homeless child: " Why God allow this and why so few people help us?”.
"When the heart is able to address this question and cry- said the Pope – we cannot understand, there is a secular pity which maximum make us put and hand in our pockets and donate a coin: if Christ would have had this kind of compassion would have just come here, saved 3 or four people and gone back to His Father. Papa Francesco, at the meeting opening, after had asked and get the permission to speak in Spanish said, " First of all, a sad news: yesterday- he told to the presents – before the beginning of the mass, one of the tower felt down and hit one working girl, killing her. Her name was Cristel, she was a 27 years old, young as you and she was working as a volunteer for an association called Catholic Relief Service.
I want all of us and you, young as her, to pray all together Our Virgin Mary and let’s do a minute of silence for Cristel. Let’s pray. She was an only child. Let’s pray also for his father who is coming to Manila to see her and her mother whom is coming from Hong Kong. "In today’s society women have too much to tell us- says Francis Pope - so many times we are chauvinist, but a woman is able to see things with a different look, particular gaze, to address questions we men are not able to understand, they are more careful, they are addressing questions: but the only question which doesn’t have answer has have been made by June. The word weren’t enough, so she cried, she needed tears, so when the next Pope will come to Manila, let’s made more women come, please! We need to learn how to cry.”
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30 January 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
The network of strategic studies of which Fondazione Mediterraneo joins, published january newsletter.
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29 January 2015
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)
The meeting took place in Vesuvio Hall of MAMT Museum.
After the screening of the video about the macro regional proposals and a short recap on the results of “Giovanni Agnelli Foundation” (1992 – 1996) and “Fondazione Mediterraneo” (1997) results on the opportunity to reduce the number of regions in Italy, the president Michele Capasso and prof. Abdelhak Azzouzi discussed on the topic “Macroregion: an occasion for Europe and Mediterranean” with a “An Arabian Maghreb: from crises area to development occasion”. Followed: “Legality as element for the development of macroregions”, discussed later dott. Salvatore Càlleri, Antonino Caponnetto Foundation’s President and counselor of Sicily Region on corruption themes, tenders, and struggle to mafia. “The role in Campania in the new program on Macroregions, between Europe and Mediterranen” has been faced by on. Andrea Cozzolino, European Parliamentar, vicepresident of Parliamentar Commission for regional development.
