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.

 

Anthropologist and psychologist Rita El Khayat met the President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, Michele Capasso ex pressing her appreciation for the book “La Grande Méditerranée”.

 

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The President of the Fondazione Mediterraneo Michele Capasso and Pia Molinari – board member – participated in the International Conference to which they were invited by the OBI (Osservatorio Banche impresa) directed by Antonio Corvino.
 The introductory speech was given by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Prize winner and member of the Fondazione Mediterraneo.
The speakers at the event included among other, the Mayor of Naples, de Magistris and the Vice President of the European Parliament Gianni Pittella, who spoke of the imperativeness of creating a United States of Europe, which that Fondazione Mediterraneo has been advocating since 1995.

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Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, member of the Fondazione Mediterraneo, supports and promotes the  "Totem for Peace" by  Molinari, defining it as "the Symbol that encloses hopes and ambitions for building Peace”. During a meeting with President Michele Capasso and  Pia Molinari (director of the "Totem for Peace" programme), Shirin Ebadi showed her support and admiration for the important actions carried out by the Fondazione Mediterraneo throughout the world.

 

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The President Capasso is member of  special event in association with UNESCO and ISESCO: Honorary Chair & Keynote Speaker the First Lady of Azerbaijan Mrs. Mehriban Aliyeva. Guest Speakers Mr. Larry king, CNN (USA), the First Lady of Niger, Montenegro, Georgia, Kenya, Macedonia ant  the Ministers of State for Women’s Affairs of  Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia.

 

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