Island Security Monitor, Issue 1 (Q4 2026)

ISPI Research Staff · Island Security Policy Institute, Honolulu · Published October 24, 2026 · Quarterly

The Island Security Monitor is ISPI's quarterly round-up of public security, emergency-management and resilience developments affecting Hawaii, the Pacific and other small island states. Every item links to a public primary source or to ISPI's own published research. The Monitor does not forecast or rank.

1. Regional watch: Biketawa invoked for the energy crisis

On May 8, 2026, Pacific Islands Forum leaders invoked the Biketawa Declaration to support a coordinated regional response to the emerging energy crisis, as Middle East conflict disrupted fuel supply chains. Heads of the Council of Regional Organisations of the Pacific (CROP) set up a CROP Taskforce on the Middle-East Crisis, and the Forum scheduled special sessions of Forum Officials and Foreign Ministers to design the response mechanism (Forum Secretariat release). Background: What is the Biketawa Declaration?

What to watch next quarter: public outputs of the CROP Taskforce and Forum Foreign Ministers on the response mechanism.

2. Maui and tsunami research featured on PreventionWeb

Three ISPI papers were featured on PreventionWeb, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction's knowledge platform, in October 2026:

3. ISPI research library at a glance

ISPI's open research library holds 56 papers, each with a Zenodo DOI and an open PDF:

Commentaries (CM): 15
Hawaii policy research papers (HI): 10
Policy briefs (PB): 19
Working papers (WP): 12

Browse all papers on the research page or the ISPI Zenodo community.

4. Method

Sources are limited to official releases from governments and regional bodies, and to ISPI's own papers. Corrections follow ISPI's editorial standards. Issue 2 is planned for Q1 2027.