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.

 

BEST WISHES TO THE RECTOR MAJOR OF THE SALESIANS DON FABIO ATTARD

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Rome | 28 March 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

Secretary General Michele Capasso and all the members of the United States of the World expressed their warmest wishes to don Fabio Attard, elected Rector Major of the Salesian Family, the latter a founding member of the United States of the World.
"Today is a special day for the Salesian Family, said Michele Capasso, because donFabio Attard begins his journey as Don Bosco's new successor. It is a great mission, an immense responsibility, but also a precious gift for the entire Church and for young people. We entrust Don Fabio to the protection of Heaven, and in particular we entrust him to Sister Maria Pia Giudici, who has always had the Salesians and their mission at heart. I still remember a meeting between the two of them at San Biagio".

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MOBILISING FOR A UNITED STATES OF EUROPE

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Rome | 15 March 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

A delegation of the "United States of the World" participated in the demonstration for the "United States of Europe" in Rome.
Here is the statement by Secretary-General Michele Capasso:
‘For those who, like me, have been fighting to establish the "UNITED STATES OF EUROPE" within the framework of the "UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD" for forty years, with the help of my late brotherly friend Gerardo Marotta.
For those who, like me, have put every effort and every resource into warning of the danger for the new generations without a political Europe with common defence, foreign policy and economy.
For those who, like me, have appealed to all the presidents of the European Commission and Parliament since 1990.

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"INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY" DEDICATED TO UKRAINIAN WOMEN

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Naples | 08 March 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The United States of the World celebrated "International Women's Day" 2025 by dedicating it to Ukrainian women: innocent victims of a fratricidal war in the heart of Europe.
Throughout the day, the Peace Museum's 107 large videowalls projected images of Ukrainian women whose dignity and lives have been violated.
To NOT FORGET what increasingly appears to be a tragedy of immense proportions.
President Capasso thus addressed the women in attendance and those connected webinar:
"We want to dedicate this March 8, 2025 to the Ukrainian women who resist, who heal, who flee, who fight for life, who cry, who stand against Putin's war, who hope for Europe, who ask us to help them.
The images of Ukrainian women victims of the war flash before our eyes now unaccustomed to this spectacle in the heart of Europe: thousands dead, hundreds of thousands relocated or exiled, towns and villages in ruins, bridges and buildings destroyed by gunfire, monuments of culture or faith desecrated, violence and humiliation of all kinds, countless existences of simple people mutilated or torn apart forever. Human suffering cannot be summarized. Can one go beyond it?
This question is addressed at the same time to Russia that invaded Ukraine but also to those who have done so little to stop this war in the heart of Europe.
What can we say, in the face of such a tragedy, of a UN unsuited to the changes in our world with bureaucratic rules and vetoes that prevent real peacekeeping action; of a NATO that has remained a prisoner of archaic defense models; of a European Union that cares so little about the rest of Europe except for economic needs and following the law of markets and merchants; of a Russia trying to take back the place of the former Soviet Union by using force and violence, of all these games barely disguised by the great powers and their interests? Agreements constantly betrayed, pacts mocked and negotiators made fools of, international resolutions ignored, humanitarian convoys themselves become targets of deadly rage. Russia has provoked a war in the heart of Europe, against a "Brother Country"-Ukraine. A European war that is being waged according to archaic and despotic criteria contrary to any logic. A morally illegitimate war with no legal basis. A war above all fought by causing humiliation, suffering, genocide, violations, planned and pre-announced massacres whose victims are essentially women and children.
On this day we want to pay tribute to the women of Ukraine to whom our thoughts and help go.
Let us again throw a bottle into our sea with a common appeal intended for what remains of consciences on our shores".

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PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK "RAFFAELE, THE MAYOR" BY MICHELE CAPASSO

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Napoli | 19 February 2025
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The presentation of the book by Michele Capasso entitled "Raffaele, the Mayor" (Edition San Paolo) was held at the headquarters of the United States of the World and the Museum of Peace - MAMT.
The book is dedicated to the figure of Raffaele Capasso, mayor of San Sebastiano al Vesuvio for 35 years and architect of the reconstruction of the town destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in March 1944.
Large audience participation: speakers included the prefect of Naples di Bari, the mayor of Naples Manfredi, Senator Lumia, Professor Pica Ciamarra and many others. Pietro Perone, editor-in-chief of "Il Mattino", coordinated the event.
During the event, the docufilm "Raffaele, the Mayor" was screened.

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