The Association was started by like-minded individuals passionate about preventing targeted violence. These 8 individuals, the founder board members, took the initiative to set the ball rolling.
On 30 July 2019 a meeting was held and attended by 79 individuals across industries such as corporate security, academics in psychology and criminology, practitioners from the National Prosecuting Authority, the South African Police Service, private practitioners of psychology, the education environment, and more. At this meeting, the attendees gave the mandate for the board to proceed and take the necessary steps to set up a non-profit organisation.
At this meeting, the founder board was approved and given the mandate to take the association forward and work towards its goals of educating professionals and the public about threat assessment and management.
A Pew survey published on August 1, 2017,1 found that the fear of an attack by the so-called Islamic State (IS) ranked first in global…...
Stalking is a prevalent phenomenon that has major negative psychological, physical, social and financial sequelae. Although workplaces are creating and extending policies to respond to…...
Stalking is a worldwide phenomenon with publications relating to Australia, the USA and the United Kingdom (Sheridan & Scott, 2015), Belgium and the Netherlands (van…...
When incidents of school violence occur, they leave a profound and lasting impact on the school, the community, and our nation as a whole. Ensuring…...
The U.S. Secret Service has long held that threat assessment is the best practice for preventing acts of violence directed at the president and other…...
The model of campus threat assessment commonly used in Australian universities has been adapted largely from those in the United States and focuses primarily on…...
Doing our part to develop the threat assessment and management profession on the African continent.