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, through its President Michele Capasso, vehemently condemned the killing of Belaid Chokri in Tunisia, which undermines the difficult path towards democratic renewal.

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A new edition of the book, La Grande Méditerranée by Michele Capasso has been printed following the first edition in 2007. The book contains the Lectio Magistralis delivered by Capasso, which foresaw events that have happened from 2007 to today (page 45 and others).
The books contains preface written by: Elisabetta CaponnettoAndré AzoulayRoberto AliboniBichara KhaderTuomo MelasuoFrancesco Maria Amoruso and a postscript by  Maria-Angels Roque.

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Pietro Grasso, as Antimafia National Direction Head, has received- during the 18° Antimafia National Summit held in occasion of the tenth anniversary of the death of the judge Caponetto – “MEDITERRANEAN AWARD RAFFAELE CAPASSO FOR LEGALITY” (medal of honour) 2012”.

On that occasion, the President of the Fondazione Caponnetto Salvatore Calleri together with the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, and more than 500 delegates and students participating in the venue, announced the establishment of MOMOC (The Mediterranean Observatory on Mafia and Organized Crime).

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At the Trieste Film Festival, with whom the Fondazione Mediterraneo has been collaborating since1995, the 2013 Mediterranean Cinema Award for the best short film was awarded to “Deda” (Waiting for Mum) by Nana Ekvtimishvili. The film focuses on a man’s voice calling his mother and was awarded by a jury of young people.

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With about 200 films, many of which as international and national previews, the Trieste Film Festival is the main Italian event concerning the cinema of Centre-Eastern Europe, this year at its 22nd edition, rendering homage to the master of Slovakian cinema Dušan Hanák.

Thanks to the variety and interest of its programme, including feature films, short films and documentaries participating in the competition, retrospectives, homages, the festival is nowadays recognised as an event not to be lost as well as a show off for the cinema of the “New Europe”.

The Fondazione Mediterraneo has been cooperating with the Trieste Film Festival since 1995, granting the Mediterranean Cinema Award to the best short film.

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