The Flemish Peace Institute is an independent
institute for peace research at the Flemish Parliament.

Publications

Feel free to browse through our list of Dutch-language publications.

  • Changing Democracies: the power of testimonies for democratic education Report

    Authors: Maarten Van Alstein (ed.)

    Publication date: 07/02/2025

    An important premise of the research project Changing Democracies and this report is that learning from history is problematic when it results in one-sided, moralising narratives that frame history in the black-and-white terms of good versus evil. In the report, that ... read more

  • Peace in foreign policy: Peace nations in times of crisis Factsheet

    Publication date: 11/04/2024

    This analysis by Merel Selleslach and Maarten Van Alstein looks at how different states (Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland) and sub-state regions (Catalonia, Emilia-Romagna, Flanders, Hessen, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Wales) in Europe developed a peace orientation in their foreign policy. It ... read more

  • Polarisation and conflict: A non-violent approach Report

    Authors: Maarten Van Alstein

    Publication date: 28/11/2022

    This reports approaches polarisation in three steps. First, understanding polarisation dynamics in its various forms, secondly the meaning of polarisation from a normative point of view and finally, moving from theory to practice with a number of points of reference ... read more

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  • Dealing with Controversy and Polarisation in class (in Dutch) Book

    Authors: Maarten van Alstein

    Publication date: 21/09/2018

    Discussions about politics and society tend to be quite heated nowadays. This is also the case in class and at school. Teachers and directors are facing strong challenges. How can they react to violent or odious statements? How to teach ... read more

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  • The Memory of Peace External publication

    Publication date: 13/07/2017

    Though views on and motives for warfare have changed over the centuries, Philosophy of War and Peace proves that many past ideas still merit consideration today. This collection of essays addresses the historical, cultural and political background of various views ... read more

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

    Authors: Nils Duquet & Maarten Van Alstein

    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

  • Facing a Difficult Past? The Yser Tower in Dixmude, Belgium External publication

    Publication date: 16/11/2016

    In this article Maarten van Alstein discusses the pacifist message of the museum at the Yser in Dixmude. By presenting the First World War as senseless violence and horror, the museum hopes to induce in visitors an awareness of the ... read more