Flashpoint Tabletop Case Study Compendium

EAB’s Flashpoint Tabletop Case Study Compendium is built to prepare your institution’s key decision-makers to respond to various campus flashpoints. Tabletop exercises are excellent tools because they require only a few hours and can be conducted by existing staff (i.e., they do not require a team of externally contracted mediators).

• What are tabletop exercises?

  Tabletop exercises allow institutional leaders to simulate how they would react in the event of a complex flashpoint that requires a cross-functional and multidisciplinary response, without being under the emotional and logistical pressure of an active flashpoint. Simulating the institutional response, when a real threat is not present, allows teams to identify opportunities to codify their plan of response ahead of time and refine it as needed.