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As part of the 11th Edition of Chaire Avérroes for the Academic year 2009-2010 under the theme "Jeunes et créativité, entre innovation et tradition" ("Youth and Creativity, between innovation and tradition"), Mr. Albert Jacquard: Lecturer, writer, French humanist and geneticist, led, in the Conference Center of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Marrakech, a conference entitled: "La construction réciproque des personnes et de l’humanité" ("The mutual Construction of people and Humanity").

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The President of Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, in the wonderful “Huerto del Cura” in Elche, near Alicante, presented the programme of the “Totem for Peace” to journalists and representatives of the civil society coming from 43 Countries.

In a moment when the economic crisis, and also the values crisis, seams to waver all our certainties, it is fundamental to have a symbol of peace in which each one can identifies himself, overcoming cultural, religious and political diversities.
The participants will support the action, promoting the programme of the “Totem for Peace” in their respective Countries.

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At the entrance of the cathedral dedicated to Saint Michele Arcangelo, Monsignor Giuseppe Rocco Favale, bishop of the Diocesi di Vallo della Lucania, cut the ribbon for the first stone of the "Totem for Peace".
Together with the mayor of Rutino Michele Voria other mayors participated: Franco Serra (Laureana Cilento), Raffaello Gargano (Torchiara), Antonio Radano (Stella Cilento), Emanuele Malatesta (Omignano), Anna Acquaviva (Serramezzana), Franco Alfieri (Agropoli), Giuseppe Castellano (Lustra).

President of Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, Mrs. Pia Balducci Molinari, hon. Pasquale Vessa and the President of Comunità Montana Alento Monte Stella Sabato Vecchio attended the event.

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The travel of the "Totem for Peace" keeps to spead, through the red sail, its message of peace. On the occasion of the Concert for the Liberation Day, the band Santabarba played on the stage of p.zza Castello in Turin disseminating the message.

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In the context of the Yacht Med Festival and on the occasion of the presentation of the book NostroMareNostro by Michele Capasso, the Mediterranean Award "Medal of Honour" 2010 was delivered to the young artist from Latina Cecilia Chiavelli, for the work the artist titled as the book NostroMareNostro by Michele Capasso.

The work is an oil painting of 150 cm X 100 cm representing a stylized “M” realized with natural materials from the Mediterranean land, as pebbles of the sea symbolizing "souls" and "faces".

“The meaning of the work – said the President of Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso, awarding the artist - is a message of solidarity and union among the communities of the Mediterranean".

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