50TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNESCO IHP PROGRAM

The Cairo | 12 October 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

In 2025, UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) marks its 50th anniversary as the first UN intergovernmental initiative devoted to water research, management, and education. Celebrating five decades of advancing hydrological science, shaping policy, and fostering innovation worldwide and in Arab Region.
Since 1995, the "United States of the World" and the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" have shared the IHP programme with UNESCO, organising important events in Italy and abroad.
UNESCO Regional Office in Cairo is organizing, as part of our long partnership with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation in Egypt Several Session featuring high-level reflections, testimonials, and a retrospective on science, policy, water challenges, climate change resilience, regional and international cooperation on addressing water challenges, globally in in our region.
Looking Ahead, these sessions it will also contribute to a vision for the future, where we jointly address emerging challenges, deploy science diplomacy, and adopt inclusive approaches to water security.

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MICHELE CAPASSO'S BOOK "WAR JOURNALS. BOSNIA" HAS BEEN PUBLISHED

Naples | 10 October 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Michele Capasso's book "War Journals. Bosnia" has been published in Italian and English. It is the first in a series that bears witness to the major conflicts of the last century and this century.
The ‘diary book’ is Michele Capasso's testimony and recounts his experience in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1964 to the present day, recounting episodes of friends, men and women, who came together in a great ‘chain of love’ for acts of solidarity towards the victims of a war that caused hundreds of thousands of innocent casualties.
One of the protagonists of the book is Predrag Matvejevic’, writer and essayist, who shared with the author the most significant moments at the turn of the millennium, from 1988 to 2017.
It is the story of unique human experiences at a historic moment when the Mediterranean, at the turn of the millennium, took on strategic importance for dialogue and peace: with Bosnia and Herzegovina the victim of a conflict symbolically represented by Sarajevo and Srebrenica, the town where the second genocide of the 20th century was perpetrated on 11 July 1995.
Fratricidal war, ethnic cleansing, urbicide, memoricide, genocide: against everything that was happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, in general, in the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans, Michele Capasso took action, investing all his personal resources and urging people not to give up, as evidenced by the stories told in this book, where everything can be rigorously verified in documents and images.
The overall meaning of the narrative is to highlight the great strength that human beings have been able to develop in countering the adversity and pain caused by war and senseless hatred, facing adversity without ever losing faith in tomorrow.
The preview presentation of the book will take place in Sarajevo on 16 October 2025 in the presence of the protagonists and representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the main international institutions.

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HUMANITY MUST NOT END IN GAZA

Naples | 04 October 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

While Italy prepares for the national demonstration for Gaza, which will start at the Pyramid and end at Piazza San Giovanni, I read an article by my dear friend Ibrahim Faltas, Vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, which I agree with word for word.
In the text, he writes:
"Humanity must not end in Gaza. It is truly difficult to believe that human beings can inflict such suffering on other human beings, on more than two million people who have already suffered, who have died, who are suffering from a lack of rights and basic necessities. No one is stopping this absurdity, which robs both those who suffer and those who cause it of all dignity. After this total destruction, who can justify so much bloodshed and suffering? Will what is built on suffering and death have solid foundations? It is impossible to understand such relentless persecution of innocent, defenceless, unarmed people."
He continues: 
"There can be no understanding and no justification for such inhumanity, for complicit silence, for words of circumstance. It was time to disarm the fratricidal hands and stop the fire. At this moment, I have only questions for humanity, which has defeated its own nature and does not respond to the fundamental needs of justice and truth. I hope that the international community has asked itself these same questions while we silently, helplessly and astonishedly witness this further massacre and inhuman destruction."

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THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD AT THE 80TH UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

New York | 23 September 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

A delegation from the “United States of the World” and the “Fondazione Mediterraneo” participated as observers in the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80), held in New York from 9 to 30 September 2025, with the general debate taking place from 23 to 29 September.
The session celebrated the 80th anniversary of the UN and focused on the theme “Better Together: 80 Years and Beyond for Peace, Development and Human Rights”. Side events were also organised, including the SDG Moment and a Climate Summit.
Secretary-General SUM Michele Capasso reiterated the urgent need to renew the UN to adapt it to today's challenges, stressing that "On 7 October 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, it blew up the entire system and the pseudo-international order that had emerged at the end of the Second World War, going far beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the conflict between Jews and Muslims. The raid on 7 October 2023 destroyed the myth of Israeli invincibility with Netanyahu's abnormal reaction, which caused tens of thousands of deaths in Gaza, particularly children, victims of a crime against humanity".

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