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NATIONAL AWARD FOR CULTURE OF LEGALITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY
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28 September 2012
As in recent years, the Fondazione Mediterraneo took part in this year’s event to promote legality with important personalities including representatives from the public administration and other associations, as well as private individuals. These men and women dedicate their working lives to “normality”, which can be asserted through the culture of legality and public safety. The Award for Literature went to Giuseppe Ayala, the Award for Voluntary Service to Raffaellina Ottaviano (President of the Associazione Ercolano per la legalità), the Award for Voluntary Service to Federico Cafiero de Raho (Procuratore Aggiunto - Coordinatore DDA) and the Special Award for Young Reporters to Radio Siani (Web radio for legality).
THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO ITALY RECEIVES THE “2012 MEDITERRANEAN AWARD FOR INFORMATION” IN MEMORY OF MIKA YAMAMOTO
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28 September 2012
In accordance with the express wishes of the family of journalist Mika Yamamoto - who was barbarously killed in Aleppo – the Japanese Ambassador to Italy received the Mediterranean Award on behalf of her family at a ceremony on 3 September in Naples.
The President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Michele Capasso, handed over this prestigious acknowledgement to Minister Hoshiyama Takashi who expressed his gratitude as receiving such an outstanding honour on behalf of the family.
THE TOTEM FOR PEACE BY MARIO MOLINARI IN JAPAN
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28 September 2012
At a meeting with Minister Hoshiyama Takashi at the Japanese Embassy in Italy, President Michele Capasso suggested erecting the “Totem for Peace” in one of Japan’s martyred cities: Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
In the coming weeks, decisions will be taken about the building of this monument work by Mario Molinari.
MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
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28 September 2012
President Michele Capasso had a brief meeting with Bill Clinton to whom he handed over the nomination for the Mediterranean Award for diplomacy, which has been conferred upon his wife, Hillary.
THE MEDITERRANEAN “PEACE KEEPERS” AWARD GOES TO THE COMMANDERS OF THE NUNZIATELLA MILITARY ACADEMY
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21 September 2012
The change Command Ceremony at the Nunziatella Military Academy in Naples, during which Colonel Bernardo Barbarotto handed over command to Colonel Maurizio Napoletano, was attended among others by the Commander of the Military Academy of Modena, General Division, Massimiliano Del Casale, and dignitaries representing civil and military institutions. At the close of the ceremony, the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Michele Capasso, together with other members including Vittorio di Pace and Claudio Azzolini, informed those attending of the jury’s decision to give the Mediterranean Peace Keepers Award to the departing commanders of the Nunziatella Academy as a token of the Academy’s secular activities.
The highest honour was awarded to Colonel Bernardo Barbarotto and consists of a replica of the TOTEM FOR PEACE by Molinari set on a stone base taken from old block of lava from Vesuvius.
LA FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO RECEIVES THE HIGHEST HONOUR OF “FRIEND OF THE NUNZIATELLA ACADEMY”
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21 September 2012
At the conclusion of the solemn ceremony for the change of command at the “Nunziatella” Military Academy based in Naples, where Colonel Maurizio Napoletano took command from Colonel Bernardo Barbarotto. During the ceremony, attended, among others, by the Commander of the Modena Military Academy, Division General, Massimiliano Del Casale, Highest Honour of “Friend of Nunziatella” was awarded to the Fondazione Mediterraneo and its president, Michele Capasso.
The reason for the Honour read as follows: “for its commitment to increasing and valorizing the prestige of “Nunziatella”. The President of the Fondazione, Michele Capasso, together with senior architect Vittorio di Pace and Claudio Azzolini expressed their gratitude at receiving this highest honour.
CHANGE OF COMMAND AT THE NUNZIATELLA MILITARY ACADEMY
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21 September 2012
The ceremony for the change of command at the Nunziatella Military Academy in Naples. The new Commander, who took over from Colonel Bernardo Barbarotto is Colonel Maurizio Napoletano, from the Third division of the Armed Forces- Operational Center of the Italian State Army.
The ceremony took place in the Vittorio Veneto Court in the presence of, among others, the Commander of the Military Academy of Modena, General Division, Massimiliano Del Casale. The President of the Fondazione Michele Capasso and other members – including architect Vittorio di Pace and Claudio Azzolini – took part in the ceremony. At this occasion, the two commanders awarded the highest honour of “Friend of Nunziatella” to the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
In acknowledgement of the honour officially bestowed on the Fondazione Mediterraneo, President Capasso informed those attending of the jury’s decision to award the Mediterranean Award for Bearers of Peace to all the departing commanders of the Nunziatella academy.
Sign language as an element of social inclusion of women and deaf youths
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21 September 2012
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The Fondazione Mediterraneo sustains and promotes this project within the framework of the Italian Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation. President Michele Capasso spoke at a press release for the presentation of the project. |
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CITY AND UTOPIA 2
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21 September 2012
The President Michele Capasso took part in the second edition of the "City and Utopia" exhibition, which became necessary to expand the themes just touched upon in the first. The setting was the same: putting together a mix of painting, photography, architecture, comics, cinema, contaminating the various arts, trying to create a short circuit between reality and utopia.
Pope Benedict XVI signs the post-Synodal Exhortation: Christians in the Middle East must find the essence of their faith again; pardon must prevail over revenge, love over hatred. The Fondazione Mediterraneo attended the event.
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16 September 2012
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Several members of the Fondazione Mediterraneo took part in this historic event together with the Latin Patriarch, Fouad Twal, at which the text of the “Post-Synodal Exhortation” was cited in the name of peace, dialogue and collaboration between Christians and Muslims. President Capasso referred to the more than 70 appeals launched by Pope John Paul II for the Lebanon and his visit of 1997, at which the Holy Father made a historic speech in Freedom Square, comparing Beirut to Sarajevo. “It is essential to forgive and start trusting in one another again.” More than 350,000 people attending sustained Pope Benedict XVI as he reiterated that “Peace could not be achieved in the Middle East until each person recognized his neighbor as a brother and not as his enemy”. The test of the Exhortation is important for many reasons, especially those relating to the links between religion and politics (paras. 29 and 30) and laity, etc. |
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