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.

 

EUROMESCO ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON THE SUBJECT OF EUROPE, THE MEDITERRANEAN AND THE ARAB SPRING: TRANSFORMING CRISIS INTO OPPORTUNITY

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Barcellona | 05 October 2012
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The “Euromesco” annual conference took place in Barcelona.

President Michele Capasso gave a speech on the democratization process under way in Arab countries, based on his 20 years’ experiences as President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo.

On that occasion, special mention was made to the book by Michele Capasso, published in 2007  by the University Cadi Ayyad in Marrakesh, which included the “Lectio Magistralis” containing truly premonitory  reflections about events which happened between 2008-2012.

 

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE EUROMESCO NETWORK

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Barcellona | 04 October 2012
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The Annual General and Extraordinary Meeting of the “Euromesco” network of international politics institutes took place at the IEMED headquarters in Barcelona.

On that occasion, the Activities Report was discussed and approved as was the Report on the Action Plan for 2012-2014. Prof. Bichara Khader was confirmed as President of the Steering Committee, Director of the Centre of Studies and Research on the Contemporary Arab World (Belgium) and member of the Fondazione Mediterraneo.

The Fondazione Mediterraneo has been a member of Euromesco since 2006 and attended the Assembly thanks to the participation of its President Michele Capasso, who suggested drafting a summary weekly Newsletter – with one page in English, one in French, Arabic, Russian and Chinese, respectively to be disseminated worldwide.

 

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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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WORLD HABITAT DAY 2012 - Changing Cities, Building Opportunities (EN)

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Nairobi | 01 October 2012
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The United Nations has designated the first Monday of October every year as World Habitat Day. This year, the day will be celebrated on 1 October 2012.
UN-Habitat has chosen the theme Changing Cities, Building Opportunities because cities are the engines of growth. It is in the cities that many realize their dreams of a better life. Even if this is not achieved, still many more leave the rural areas and flock to the cities for no other reason than the promise of a better future and prosperity.

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