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This article focuses on the Guatemalan genocide—which has been labeled "acts of genocide" by the United Nations—in the context of the Guatemalan state's weakness in mobilizing people and resources for its genocidal project. State planners were able to brutalize the indigenous population, especially during the early 1980s. But at the same time, the state showed extraordinary weakness in basic state functions such as taxing and military mobilization. The article links these failures to a more general state absence of "infrastructural capacity," and to the strength of powerful non-state forces originating inside and outside of Guatemalan national borders. The article concludes with comparative lessons from other genocides—notably the Holocaust and Rwanda—marked by state strength in the areas of mobilizing people and resources.

The many discourses surrounding 9/11 place existing civic education in a tenuous space within the current political climate. The challenges of producing a universally acceptable interpretation and approach to democratic education have been compounded in the aftermath of 9/11. Due to a heightened sense of fear and an increased level of blind nationalism, many of the basic concepts in the Constitution, like equality, justice, and reciprocity have been temporarily de-emphasized for a more compartmentalized way of "American" living, based on concepts such as patriotism, loyalty, and safety. Given the current political climate, the time to revisit the goals of civic education as a conduit of a globalized deliberative democracy is now. The author argues that civic education programming would be better served if more emphasis were placed on the philosophical foundations of the subject.

Visually Provoking - a dynamic collection of visually oriented research about current doctoral studies from international art educators in Australia, Canada, China, Egypt, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Portugal, Spain, and the United States of America. Together we are thinking about, with and through the visual, focusing attention on practices that are reshaping our understandings of intellectual exchange in an effort to open deliberations, considerations, imaginations, and potentialities for different ways of doing research. This collection may be considered in tandem with our related book, International Perspectives on Visual Arts PhDs in Education: Provoking the Field (Intellect), which explores theoretical, methodological and practice-based accounts of doctoral studies.

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Nigeria has abundant energy resources that include natural gas, large hydro, coal, nuclear, small hydro, solar (PV and PT), and wind. However, the country's per capita electricity consumption is lower than the African continent's average. Therefore, there is a need for the diversification of the electricity supply in Nigeria. The government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has acknowledged that nuclear energy would play a significant role in enhancing the per capita electricity generation. Consequently, the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC), as the national focal agency for developing and harnessing peaceful uses of nuclear energy in Nigeria, developed a strategic plan for the implementation of nuclear energy known as the National Nuclear Power Programme (NNPP). The NNPP plan was approved by the federal government of Nigeria in 2007. A critical component of the NNPP is the construction and operation of a nuclear power plant. Nuclear power plants are huge national engineering assets that require a plethora of human resources. In order to meet this need for knowledgeable and capable individuals, the NAEC, in partnership with four Nigerian universities, developed a curriculum for master's programs in nuclear science and engineering. This paper discusses the master's program in nuclear engineering that was implemented at the University of Port Harcourt. The program lasts for 15 months and consists of 20 core courses, 4 electives, and one research project. To date, 13 students have graduated from the master's program and acquired the necessary competencies with three of these graduates already enrolled in PhD programs for nuclear engineering outside Nigeria. In addition, nine papers have been published in international journals from the research work carried out by these students