Research Divisions Services & Impact Leadership
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Book 2025 Insider Threat
The Prepared Leader: Threat Assessment, Emergency Preparedness, and Safety
Island Security Policy Institute
A blueprint for institutional leaders — drawing on FEMA, DHS, and FBI standards combined with frontline operational experience across military, law enforcement, and emergency management. Covers threat identification and scoring, emergency operations plan development, active threat response, and the psychology of institutional preparedness failure.
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The Prepared Leader
Book 2025 Insider Threat
Threat Assessment Handbook
Island Security Policy Institute
Practitioner frameworks for identifying, scoring, and prioritizing threats before they materialize. Covers behavioral indicators, threat scoring methodology, intervention decision trees, and documentation protocols — grounded in ISPI's record of more than 2,400 documented real-world assessments.
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Threat Assessment Handbook
Book 2025 Campus Safety
Campus Under Siege: Why Universities Are Soft Targets
Island Security Policy Institute
A hard-hitting analysis of systemic campus security gaps — behavioral threat assessment, mass notification failures, Greek life risks, dorm security architecture, and crisis leadership. Written for university presidents, campus safety directors, Title IX coordinators, and trustees responsible for institutional security policy.
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Campus Under Siege
Book 2025 Campus Safety
Locked Down: The Access Control Playbook
Island Security Policy Institute
Physical security architecture, access control policy frameworks, and implementation guidance for schools, campuses, and corporate environments. Covers perimeter design, credential systems, visitor management, lockdown protocols, and the specific access control failures documented in major campus security incidents.
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Locked Down
Book 2025 Workforce
Uniformed Silence
Island Security Policy Institute
An examination of the systemic challenges facing public safety professionals in island communities — workforce culture, institutional barriers, mental health stigma, retention failures, and the policy reforms required to build sustainable public safety workforces in Pacific and island-state communities.
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Uniformed Silence
White Paper Forthcoming Q3 2026 Emergency Preparedness
Island-State Security: Why Mainland Frameworks Fail
Island Security Policy Institute
ISPI's inaugural policy white paper — a comprehensive analysis of the structural gap between continental security frameworks and island-community realities. Examines documented failure modes across Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, the Maui wildfires, and Pacific Island disaster responses where mainland frameworks produced preventable failures.
Available Q3 2026 — Register for notification via the contact form.
Forthcoming 2026