THE MAISON DE LA PAIX

 

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.

 

Professor Bichara Khader, Director  the  Center for Research and Studies on the Contemporary Arab World at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium),  wrote a preface for the new edition of  the book  “La Grande Méditerranée” by Michele Capasso speaking of his commitment to the Mediterranean cause and the visionary content of the work.

 

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Professor Roberto Aliboni, former vice president of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, and considered one of the most eminent experts on international politics, wrote a preface to the book by Michele Capasso, "La Grande Méditerranée", which has been reprinted in its full 2007 edition for its premonitory reflections on today’s events.

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Senator Francesco Maria Amoruso was elected President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean for the 2012-2014 biennium.
President Capasso publicly expressed his appreciation of this illustrious position, and hoped that the cooperation between the Assembly and the Fondazione Mediterraneo would continue to prosper.

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The Fondazione Mediterraneo, which was the first observer member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean, took part in the work of - and contributed its 20 years’ experience in building peace and dialogue to - the 7th Plenary Session of PAM. Moreover, the idea for PAM began in Naples in the headquarters of the Fondazione itself.

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