This annual report clearly reflects our DNA of dialogue. On top of an overview of our (many) activities in 2022, the reader will discover four interviews full of intriguing insights on mutual radicalisation, Ukraine, the Balkans and today’s arms industry.

Researchers Annelies Pauwels and Maarten Van Alstein analyse non-violent, educational and whole-of-society approaches to polarisation and radicalisation and dive behind the scenes of cumulative extremism.

In November 2021 the Flemish Peace Institute advocated in a new advisory report a more active role as a bridge builder for Belgium and Flanders in the field of international nuclear disarmament. Read this report with valuable insights for all non-nuclear weapon states in the NATO alliance.

In the new report “Under the radar: Transit of military goods - from licensing to control” the Flemish Peace Institute analyses transit control systems in seven European countries and identifies possibilities and challenges for international cooperation and information exchange.

How does illicit firearms trafficking impact gun violence in Europe? That was Project TARGET's central question. Project TARGET significantly improves our understanding of the dynamics of gun violence across Europe and the impact of illicit firearms trafficking on gun violence. It is also the first in-depth study on the relationship between illicit firearms trafficking and different types of gun violence across Europe.

Project DIVERT is a research project, funded by the European Union’s Internal Security Fund — Police, which focuses on the diversion of live-firing firearms from the legal domain into the illicit sphere within the European Union.