About

The Island Security Policy Institute (ISPI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization — the world's only think tank dedicated exclusively to public safety and security policy for island and coastal communities worldwide.

Headquartered in Honolulu, Hawai'i, ISPI produces practitioner-led research across seven policy domains: insider threat and workplace security, emergency preparedness and island
resilience, law enforcement and public safety workforce development, campus and institutional safety, at-risk youth and community safety, governance and global policy, and supply chain
security.

ISPI was founded by Warren Pulley — a BTAM-certified behavioral threat assessment specialist with 2,400+ documented real-world assessments and 40 years of verified operational experience across U.S. Air Force nuclear security, the Los Angeles Police Department, U.S. Embassy Baghdad diplomatic security with a zero-incident record under sustained daily threat, FEMA-certified emergency management, and university campus safety administration.

Island communities face public safety challenges that continental frameworks were never designed to address: geographic isolation that eliminates mutual aid, supply chain singularity with no backup when shipping is disrupted, law enforcement workforce constraints driven by island cost-of-living, and insider threat dynamics in small socially dense organizations that standard frameworks systematically underestimate. ISPI builds the island-specific frameworks that address these conditions directly.

22 practitioner-led research documents available free at ispiglobal.com. Research commissions accepted from government agencies, foundations, international organizations, and corporations operating in island environments. Policy briefs from $5,000. Assessment reports from $15,000.

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