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 CAPASSO: THE POPE'S VISIT TO MOROCCO FUNDAMENTAL STEP FOR DIALOGUE

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Rabat | 30 March 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

"The visit of Pope Francis to Morocco is a further step in interreligious dialogue," said the President of the  Foundazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, recalling the ancient links with Morocco since 1989.
"We are proud to have contributed in our own small way to strengthening the conditions for visits to Abu Dhabi and Rabat through a small daily work of confrontation between Islam and the Catholic Church in order to highlight what unites and not what divides ", President Capasso concluded during a dialogue with the international press.

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POPE FRANCIS IN MOROCCO: THE HOLY MASS AND THE CATHEDRAL MEETING WITH THE CLERGY

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Rabat | 31 March 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

In a city bathed in rain, Pope Francis celebrates Holy Mass in the Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports Complex. An exciting moment characterized by the presence and sharing of the Moroccan Catholic community - less than 1% of the population - who wanted to greet and pay tribute to the Holy Father.
"Be a Church in dialogue, not worried about the number, but of your authenticity", this is the invitation that Pope Francis addressed to the clerous, men and women religious and the Ecumenical Council of the Churches reborn in the cathedral of Rabat.

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THE FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO FOR THE LAND OF THE EARTH

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Rome | 19 April 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Rome like London and Paris. Thousands of kids, but not only, took to the streets in Rome for the #FridaysforFuture event. The big global protest against climate change. All united with the cry of "Save the planet".
The young and now famous Swedish activist Greta Thunberg set the crowd on fire. The 16 year old recalled once again that time is running out. In 11 years we will see a breakdown of the irreversible climate. "The problem is the same everywhere: nothing has been done to reverse the situation. We have been on strike for the last six months, but nothing has changed, "said Greta." Emissions are increasing, there is no change in sight. We will have to keep fighting, it will take not weeks or months, but years. We don't sacrifice ourselves for nothing. We are changing the world. When we are old we will know that we have struggled to change the world and will continue to fight to the end ", he continued.
On the road or riding dozens of bicycles to produce the energy needed to run Greta's microphone. The important thing is to be aware that "Climate change means human extinction", and that the world is not a bank. The protest was aimed not only against incinerators, bad waste disposal and pollution. It was also a warning to politicians, who according to activists do nothing to stop this "ecological catastrophe".
2019 ranks third among the hottest years on the planet, with an average first quarter temperature on the surface of the Earth and oceans higher by 0.90 degrees than the average of the twentieth century (according to data from the National Climatic Data Center).
President Capasso intervened by finding the sharing of dear friends, such as Don Giadio De Biasio, parish priest of Roccamonfina, among the few religious present.

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MED BLUE ECONOMY

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Gaeta | 24 April 2019
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Fondazione Mediterraneo has collaborated in this edition of the "Med Blue Economy" which takes place in Gaeta from 24th April to 1 May 2019.
This event, conceived by the Italian Confederation for Economic Development (CISE) together with Eurispes and Universitas Mercatorum and sponsored - among others - by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food, Forestry and Tourism Policies and by the Fondazione Mediterraneo it is a great laboratory and a great showcase for the economy of the sea.
Over 100 exhibitors present in the stands.
The demonstration was inaugurated in the presence of numerous authorities including the President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and the President of the Council of State, Filippo Patroni Griffi.
"This project of ours is conceived on the basis of a 'Glocal' philosophy - highlighted the President of CISE Giosy Romano - that starting from the territories and their excellence wants to acquire an international dimension. We are convinced that our South has all the necessary resources, in terms of ideas and entrepreneurial qualities, to compete on an equal footing with the North, without having to take lessons from anyone”.

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