ISPI Research Blog

DHS, DOJ, and FEMA program officers commission ISPI for island and coastal-state research because standard federal frameworks were built for continental communities. Here is what that gap costs.

Pacific Island nation governments face security policy challenges no continental research institution was built to address. Independent practitioner-led research from ISPI fills the gap.

Hotels, energy companies, ports, and corporations operating in island environments face security and ESG risks that continental frameworks systematically underestimate. ISPI provides the research they need.

Foundations funding public safety, community resilience, and indigenous community programs commission ISPI to build the evidence base that makes their grantmaking more effective.

UN bodies, Commonwealth programs, CARICOM, and allied government organizations commission ISPI for small-state and island-community security policy research that no academic institution can provide.

Hawaii state agencies, Pacific territory governments, and island county administrations commission ISPI for island-specific policy research that mainland academic institutions cannot provide.

Island communities worldwide share three structural conditions that make standard insider threat frameworks fail — social density, workforce irreplaceability, and the social cost barrier. ISPI's research addresses all three.

From Lahaina to Vanuatu to the Caribbean, the same emergency management framework failure recurs. ISPI's Island Emergency Management Framework explains why — and what replaces it.

From HPD to the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service to Fiji's police force, island law enforcement agencies worldwide share the same structural workforce problem. ISPI's research identifies what actually works.

From rural Hawaii schools to Pacific Island territory universities to remote Mediterranean campuses, geographically isolated institutions worldwide face an active threat response gap that standard protocols cannot close.

Pacific Island governments are making security decisions with consequences they cannot fully evaluate. ISPI's democratic resilience research identifies why — and what independent policy research does to close the gap.

Island communities worldwide share a supply chain vulnerability that no existing federal or international framework was designed to address. ISPI coined the term supply chain singularity — and built the framework to solve it.

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander youth have been overrepresented in Hawaii's juvenile justice system for decades. The evidence-based alternatives exist. ISPI's research examines why they are not being implemented.

Island public safety policy fails when it is built on academic research that has never been stress-tested against island operational realities. ISPI's practitioner-led model changes that.

Standard BTAM frameworks were calibrated on North American continental data. In Pacific Island, Native Hawaiian, and small island community contexts, miscalibration produces systematic errors that can be corrected — with the right framework.

Operational experience protecting U.S. Embassy personnel in active conflict environments produces specific insights about institutional security in resource-constrained, geographically isolated environments — insights directly applicable to island institutions worldwide.

ISPI's founder holds a complete FEMA ICS/NIMS certification suite. That training is what revealed precisely where FEMA's frameworks fail in island community contexts — and what needs to replace them.

Direct experience administering Clery Act compliance, Title IX coordination, and campus security on an island campus reveals gaps in federal guidance that no mainland institution faces.

Operational experience in U.S. Air Force nuclear asset protection produces specific insights about critical infrastructure security in resource-constrained, geographically isolated environments — insights directly applicable to island communities worldwide.