Theme 1: Policy and Institutional Mechanisms for promoting School Safety
1. School Safety Through Town Planning by Shabih-ul-Hassan Zaidi
2. Developing Guidelines for Appropriate and Safe Schools by Kai Weise
3. Policy and Institutional Mechanism for Promoting School Safety by Rana Arif
4. Building Safe Schools – the Community-Oriented Approach by Roland Hare and Judit Deilinger
5. Teaching Guidelines on ‘Earthquake and Safety’ for Nursery School Instructors by Farokh Parsizadeh

Theme 2: Technical Aspects of Seismically Safer Schools
1. Technical standards for earthquake resistant schools by UN-HABITAT
2. Ensuring school safety using local material and skills in the Himalaya region by Qaisar Ali
3. The Social Impact Assessment of Retrofit and Renovation of Schools in Istanbul by Zeynep Sanduvac

Theme 3: Systems/Skills/Resources-Capacity Development Requirements for Safer Construction
1. Recovering Indigenous Knowledge for Safer Schools by Rohit Jigyasu
2. Experiences in Capacity Development from the ERRA Rural Housing Reconstruction Programme by UN-HABITAT

Theme 4: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction Information in Formal/ Informal Education
1. Community Awareness in DRR through children by Manasi Abhyankar
2. School projects and DDR Educational policies - A French experience sharing by Oliver Schick
3. How to Utilize the Lessons of Disasters in School Disaster Education: A Case example of Kobe, Japan by Koichi Shiwaku
4. Education for Disaster Risk Reduction and School Safety: An International Agenda for the Disaster Reduction Community by Kristine Tovmasyan

Theme 5: Community Preparedness for Disaster Prevention and Response
1. Building Resilient Communities through Safer Schools by FOCUS
2. Building Resilient Communities: Relevance of School Safety by Chandran Puttiyotil
3. School projects and DDR Educational policies – A French experience sharing by Olivier Schick
4. Restoring and Strengthening Education after the Earthquake in Kashmir by Abdhesh Gangwar & Rashmi Gangwar
5. Indigenous Knowledge and Construction of Safe School Buildings for Combating Disasters by Durgadas Mukhopadhyay

Theme 6: Public – Private Partnerships for Safe Schools
1. Public and Private Partnerships for Safe Schools by Rana Arif
2. To use 3 D Virtual Reality gaming technology for school safety by Parag Mankeekar

General Discussion Papers
1. School Disaster Reduction & Readiness Checklist by Risk RED
2. Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of School Buildings by Chandra Bhakuni
3. Concept Note: Formal and Informal Education for Disaster Risk Reduction by Risk RED
4. Preventable Disasters: Addressing Social Vulnerability, Institutional Risk, and Civil Ethics by Kenneth Hewitt
5. Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Modelling and its Application in School Safety: Experience from Gujarat by Sehar Iqbal