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.

 

NOT TO GORGET: THE MEMORIAL DAY AT THE MUSEUM

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Naples | 27 January 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

As every year, the United States of the World, the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace held various events with school students and selected groups of visitors on the occasion of the 2024 'Day of Remembrance'. In the Israel Room - inaugurated by Shimon Peres - various videos were screened, some of them unpublished, on the Shoah and the deportation of the Jews to the various concentration camps.
There was emotion and participation particularly when watching the testimonies of Israelis and Palestinians who were victims of the ongoing conflict. In particular the testimonies of Andra and Tatiana Bucci during their visit to the Museum of Peace. Their story was moving: daughters of Jewish mothers, in 1944 - when they were only 6 and 4 years old - they were deported to Auschwitz and survived.

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CONDOLENCES FOR THE DEATH OF NULLO MINISSI

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Viterbo | 27 January 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

At the age of 102, dear, fraternal Friend and Master NULLO MINISSI flew to heaven.
Former Magnificent Chancellor of "L'Orienale" University, he was one of the Founders of the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" and of the "United States of the World", taking on the role of Secretary-General and President of the International Committee.
Moved, all of us members remembered the Great Man of Culture, the Great Philologist and above all the Master with whom we faced so many battles for peace and human rights, especially in the Balkan Area so dear to him.
His example will be our guide at a difficult time in history when artificial intelligence could take over and destroy the fundamental value of MAN.

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57TH WORLD DAY OF PEACE

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Naples - Rome - Jerusalem - Gaza - Warsaw - Bueno Saires | 01 January 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The "United States of the World" organised and participated in various cities on five continents in the "57th World Day of Peace", bringing the experience of 35 years of the "Peace is Action" programme.
On this occasion, Secretary-General Prof. Michele Capasso recalled the words of Pope Francis in his message entitled: Artificial Intelligence and Peace.
"Artificial intelligence," writes Pope Francis, "must be understood as a galaxy of different realities and we cannot assume a priori that its development will make a beneficial contribution to the future of humanity and to peace among peoples. Such a positive outcome will only be possible if we show ourselves capable of acting responsibly and respecting fundamental human values such as 'inclusion, transparency, security, fairness, confidentiality and accountability'.
The themes of peace and artificial intelligence were the focus of Secretary-General Michele Capasso's start-of-year message and Father Ibrahim Faltas' appeal from the Holy Land.

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MESSAGE FOR THE NEW YEAR

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Naples | 01 January 2024
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The professor Michele Capasso - Secretary-General of the "United States of the World" and president of the "Fondazione Mediterraneo" - addressed, as usual, a message for the new year 2023.
The hope is that in this year we can reach a truce and then peace in Israel, Palestine, Ukraine and in other parts of the world through the enhancement of diversity.
“Only by tackling, solving and harmonizing diversity, conditions of misery, ignorance and injustice in the world - says prof. Capasso - it is possible to extinguish hotbeds of discord, riot, hatred; it must be understood that diversities, if harmonized, constitute a strength and a source of enrichment for all humanity, complementing each other instead of opposing each other. It is not a question of pursuing a system of universal harmony, as Fourier or Leibnitz wished, because we started from a pre-established universal harmony: the great inequalities existing between our brothers and sisters scattered throughout the world require our commitment to harmonize them. On this theme it is worth proposing an example: if in an orchestra everyone played on their own, a 'cacophony' would arise; if all the instruments were identical, it would be 'monotony'; the inequality of instruments and the harmonization of sounds is much better to arrive at a great ‘universal symphony’”.

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