Maison de la Paix || Casa Universale delle Culture (EN)

 

 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.

 

MEETING WITH PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON

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Roma | 28 September 2012
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

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.

 

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LA FONDAZIONE MEDITERRANEO RECEIVES THE HIGHEST HONOUR OF “FRIEND OF THE NUNZIATELLA ACADEMY”

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Napoli | 21 September 2012
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

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.

 

 

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CHANGE OF COMMAND AT THE NUNZIATELLA MILITARY ACADEMY

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Napoli | 21 September 2012
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

 

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.

 

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CITY AND UTOPIA 2

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Roma | 21 September 2012
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

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.

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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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Beirut | 16 September 2012
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

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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