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This open access book examines key aspects of international cooperation to enhance nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and non-proliferation, thereby assisting in development and maintenance of the verification regime and fostering progress toward a nuclear weapon-free world. The book opens by addressing important political, institutional, and legal dimensions. Current challenges are discussed and attempts made to identify possible solutions and future improvements. Subsequent sections consider scientific developments that have the potential to increase the effectiveness of implementation of international regimes, particularly in critical areas, technology foresight, and the ongoing evaluation of current capabilities. The closing sections examine scientific and technical challenges and discuss the role of international cooperation and actions of the scientific community in leading the world toward peace and security. The book – which celebrates 60 years of IAEA Atoms for Peace and Development and the EURATOM Treaty – comprises contributions presented at the XX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, where eminent scientists, diplomats, and policymakers were able to compare national perspectives and update international collaborations.

EU Member State on the Evolution of Nuclear Safety --- EU Perspective on Nuclear Safety --- IAEA Nuclear Safeguards --- Nuclear Energy in the Amaldi Conference --- Nuclear Non-proliferation --- Nuclear Safeguards --- Nuclear Security --- Role of Scientific Community for Nuclear Safety --- Scientists for Global Security --- Nuclear Safety --- Nuclear Disarmament

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This open access book offers a comparative study of eight ambitious national reforms that sought to create opportunities for students to gain the necessary breath of skills to thrive in a rapidly changing world. It examines how national governments transform education systems to provide students opportunities to develop such skills. It analyses comprehensive education reforms in Brazil, Finland, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Portugal and Russia and yields original and important insights on the process of educational change. The analysis of these 21st century skills reforms shows that reformers followed approaches which are based on the five perspectives: cultural, psychological, professional, institutional and political. Most reforms relied on institutional and political perspectives. They highlight the systemic nature of the process of educational change, and the need for alignment and coherence among the various elements of the system in order. They underscore the importance of addressing the interests of various stakeholders of the education system in obtaining the necessary impetus to initiate and sustain change. In contrast, as the book shows, the use of a cultural and psychological frame proved rarer, missing important opportunities to draw on systematic analysis of emerging demands for schools and on cognitive science to inform the changes in the organization of instruction. Drawing on a rich array of sources and evidence the book provides a careful account of how education reform works in practice.

International and Comparative Education --- Educational Policy and Politics --- Curriculum Studies --- Administration, Organization and Leadership --- Open Access --- transformation of public education systems --- role of curriculum --- Deeper Learning --- Twenty first century skills --- Socio-emotional development --- education reform --- Education Policy --- Education Leadership --- Systemic educational change --- Comparative education --- Education in Finland --- Education in Japan --- Education in Brazil --- Education in Mexico --- Education in Poland --- Education in Russia --- Education in Peru --- Education in Portugal --- Education --- Educational strategies & policy --- Curriculum planning & development --- Educational administration & organization