Reports

• Guns for sale: the Belgian illicit gun market in a European perspective

  Publication date: 21/03/2016

  The attention paid to the problem of the possession of illicit firearms and the illegal trafficking of firearms has increased significantly over the past few years, at both a Belgian and a European level. In Belgium, this increase in political ... read more

• Dealing with Radicalisation: Four reflections on Flemish radicalization policy

  Publication date: 21/05/2015

  This note offers a number of reflections on how to develop a policy on radicalisation. We have formulated these ideas in the light of contributions made and discussions held during the hearings of the Committee for Combating Violent Radicalization read more

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  Firearms and violent deaths in Europe

  Publication date: 25/06/2015

  On a regular basis, news stories appear in the media about public shootings where shooters use their guns to open fire and kill people in shopping malls or on school campuses. Mostly these stories deal with incidents in the United ... read more

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  Gun Control in Belgium: A Review of the Effects of the 2006 Weapons Law

  Publication date: 03/03/2015

  A review of the effects of the Belgian weapons law of 2006 and a concise account of how the law came about, and what major innovations it introduced in the Belgian gun control regime. read more

• Flemish Foreign Arms Trade 2013

  Publication date: 19/02/2015

  This annual report analyses the Government of Flanders’ policy on foreign arms trade. As part of its tasks as defined in its Founding Act, the Flemish Peace Institute “provides advice to the Flemish Parliament on the annual report of the ... read more

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  Revising Export Control Lists

  Publication date: 24/03/2015

  This report by Dr. Samuel Evans explains how the lists of goods (weapons, military equipment, dual-use, …) that are placed under export control are established. read more

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  Business as usual? Assessing the impact of the Arab Spring on European arms export control policies.

  Publication date: 24/03/2014

  This report evaluates the impact of the Arab Spring by analysing how four Member States (France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands) responded to these events in their arms export policies. Our research shows that the Member States responded differently. read more

• Transit of strategic goods in Europe

  Publication date: 13/08/2013

  This publication contains a detailed description of regulations and administrative practices for controlling the transit of strategic goods in the Flemish Region of Belgium, Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For the five national regimes investigated, the description ... read more

• Flemish Foreign Arms Trade 2012

  Publication date: 25/06/2013

  In this report, Flemish licences for the transfer and for the import, export and transit of defence products are analyzed on the basis of the available figures. In this analysis we focus not only on the total figures, but also ... read more

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  A European Agenda for Security Technology: From Innovation Policy to Export Controls

  Publication date: 22/02/2013

  This report examines the EU agenda on security technology. It questions whether security and defence or internal and external security have largely merged since the end of the Cold War so that there is no longer any significant difference between ... read more