A crucial emphasis for PERIPERI U is to generate research to strengthen Africa’s disaster risk knowledge base for the purposes of informing local/national policy development. All partners have tackled this through academic and socially responsive strategies. Here one can find abstracts of postgraduate student theses from the various partner’s academic programmes. These not only contribute valuable insights on local disaster risks, but also contribute to strengthening strategic human capacity in the countries concerned – by building graduate capabilities in independent research, analysis and written communication. Please look through the following page titles for a particular type of academic and research document that you might want to view;