LIBRARY OF PEACE
The "Library of Peace" is one of the priority actions of the Fondazione Mediterraneo defined in the Statute since its establishment.
The goal is to promote dialogue and mutual respect in the Euro-Mediterranean region and in the world by promoting the reading of texts in various languages and, in particular, in the Arabic language.
The Fondazione Mediterraneo signed in 2003 a permanent agreement with the “Bibliotecha Alexandrina” and the “Library of Algiers” and collaboration protocols with various international institutions, such as the “Al-Babtain Foundation” for the promotion and dissemination of Arabic poetry.
The headquarters of the "Library of Peace" - named after St. John Paul II - is located on the ground, mezzanine, fourth and fifth floors of the former “Grand Hotel de Londres”, where the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the Museum of Oeace - MAMT is located.
Equipped with about 20,000 volumes in various languages, the "Library of Peace" (BIPA) dedicates a section to children with books for children: from the myth of Giufà and the Thousand and One Nights to fairy tales that find unanimous consent and diffusion in various countries.
The "Library of Peace" is open for free to all on the following days:
- Monday: from 10 to 13am and from 16 to 18pm.
- Wednesday: from 10 to 13am and from 16 to 18pm.
- Friday: from 10 to 13am and from 16 to 18pm.
Library of Peace
Codice ISIL: IT-NA0837
https://anagrafe.iccu.sbn.it/isil/IT-NA0837
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05 February 2024
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Category: Library of Peace
Students and teachers from the “Di Giacomo - Santa Chiara” Comprehensive School visited the Library of Peace at the United States of the World headquarters, which houses the Museum of Peace.
Welcomed by the president, Prof. Michele Capasso, from 5 to 8 February, various classes took turns visiting the site, immediately expressing their appreciation and great interest in a place capable of evoking positive emotions.
On this occasion, following a resolution by the International Committee, the teachers and students (over 1,000) were named “Standard-bearers of the United States of the World”.
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19 January 2024
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Category: Library of Peace
Two hundred students from various schools in Campania gathered at the "United States of the World" headquarters for the "Italian Model United Nation" meeting, organised by the United Network Association under the patronage of the "United States of the World" and in collaboration with the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Museum of Peace MAMT.
On this occasion, all participating students and UNA staff were named "United States Standard Bearers of the World".
At the end of the event, they visited the Peace Library, expressing great appreciation for a “unique and moving” place where books take centre stage.
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30 April 2023
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Category: Library of Peace
The students of the various courses at the Istituto Musicale "Margherita di Savoia" in Naples - coordinated among others by Prof. Valentina Crimaldi - performed in the Museum's Peace Library in a beautiful concert dedicated to Ukraine entitled "NEVER AGAIN GUNS...INSTRUMENTS IN MUSIC AGAINST ALL WAR".
Before the concert, the Secretary General of the United States of the World Prof. Michele Capasso made an appeal to the young people by connecting with the city of Odessa and recommending that they act with the three "A's": Listening, Welcoming, Love.
The students were particularly attentive to the original video with the appeal to young people for the "United States of the World" made by Gustavo Rol in January 1987, which Prof. Capasso showed before the concert.
Immediately afterwards, poems by Alda Merini, Izet Sarajlic' and other poets from the Peace Library were read out.
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25 April 2023
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Category: Library of Peace
Over three hundred people gathered at the Library of Peace, located at the headquarters of the “United States of the World” and the Museum of Peace, to celebrate the “Liberation Day of the Italian Republic” (25 April 2023).
The participants were guided through the various exhibitions organised by the Museum of Peace, which retraced the most significant moments in the history of Italy concerning the liberation from Nazi-Fascism.
Live on the large video walls, there were connections with the Altare della Patria in Rome, Piazza Duomo in Milan and the Theatre of Cuneo: significant places of the 2023 celebrations.
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25 April 2022
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Category: Library of Peace
Three hundred students from various schools came to the Peace Library at the "United States of the World" and the Peace Museum to celebrate Liberation Day on 25 April 2022.
In connection with Acerra, the official ceremony in the presence of President Sergio Mattarella was broadcast live on large video walls.
Immediately afterwards, the main articles of the Italian Constitution were read out.
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