Publications

• Firearm trafficking and gun violence in Belgium Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Dennis Vanden Auweele, Quitterie de Labbey

  Publication date: 28/10/2022

  How has Belgium garnered such a bad reputation over the last decade when it comes to firearms and firearm trafficking? And how has this impacted gun violence in the country? Find out by reading the Project Target country report by ... read more

  

• Pulling the trigger: gun violence in Europe Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet (ed.), Szymon Buczyński, Piotr Chlebowicz, Sanja Ćopić, Quitterie de Labbey, Mirjana Dokmanović, Matteo Dressler (with the support of Clara Vandewege and Sofie Waebens), Declan Hillier, Paul James, Katharina Krüsselmann, Matt Lewis, Marieke Liem, Jarosław Moszczyński, Tomasz Safjański, Dennis Vanden Auweele.

  Publication date: 27/10/2022

  This report contains the 7 country studies  – Belgium, Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain and Sweden –  that were undertaken as part of the second phase of project TARGET. While the reader will be able to observe interesting similarities ... read more

  

• Project DIVERT: Firearms fraud in the European Union Report

  Authors: Quitterie de Labbey, Nils Duquet & Diederik Cops

  Publication date: 11/04/2022

  Project DIVERT focuses on three specific diversion methods; Theft, fraud and non-regularisation. The DIVERT-report you can download here focuses on fraud.  It is part of a three-part series exploring previously under-researched diversion methods in the EU. Two additional studies deal with ... read more

  

• Project TARGET: Targeting gun violence & trafficking in Europe Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet & Dennis Vanden Auweele

  Publication date: 13/12/2021

  Project TARGET is a comprehensive research project that explores the links between the different types of firearms trafficking and gun violence in all EU Member States and the Western Balkans. How does illicit firearms trafficking impact gun violence in Europe? ... read more

  

• Project DIVERT: Firearms theft in the European Union Report

  Authors: Quitterie de Labbey, Nils Duquet & Lore Smets

  Publication date: 26/05/2021

  Project DIVERT focuses on three specific diversion methods; Theft, fraud and non-regularisation. The DIVERT-report you can download below focuses on theft.  It is part of a three-part series exploring previously under-researched diversion methods in the EU. Two additional studies deal with firearms diversion through ... read more

  

• Project DIVERT: Non-regularised firearms in the European Union Report

  Authors: Matteo Dressler, Nils Duquet & Julia Eckelmann

  Publication date: 28/04/2021

  Project DIVERT focuses on three specific diversion methods; Theft, fraud and non-regularisation. The DIVERT-report you can download below focuses on non-regularisation, more specifically on the diversion of firearms, components and ammunition through conflict legacies, illegal inheritance and regulatory changes in the ... read more

  

• Webinar (ENG): Five years after the Brussels attacks: Evaluating preventive policies & the new EU Counter-Terrorism Agenda Lecture

  Location: online

  Date: 22/03/2021

  In March 2016, Brussels was hit by two terrorist attacks. On the 22nd of March 2021, exactly 5 years after the Brussels attacks, the Flemish Peace Institute,  together with policymakers and experts, took a closer look at the feasibility of ... read more

• Reviewing the EU Common Position on arms exports: whither EU arms transfer controls? Report

  Authors: Diederik Cops and Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 03/12/2019

  For almost 30 years the European Union (EU) has attempted to achieve greater convergence of its member states’ arms export policies. Since the adoption of the EU’s Common Position on arms exports in 2008, two review processes have taken place. ... read more

• Armed to Kill: A comprehensive analysis of the guns used in public mass shootings in Europe between 2009 and 2018 Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Nino Kbiltsetskhlashvili, Isthiaq Khan & Eric Woods

  Publication date: 03/10/2019

  This report analyses the firearms used in public mass shootings (with at least four deaths) in Europe between 2009-2018. In most of these shootings the perpetrator acted alone and had no terrorist motives. Public mass shootings by persons with terrorist ... read more

  

• Firearms and deaths by firearms in the EU Factsheet

  Publication date: 11/12/2018

  In recent years, policy attention to firearm violence in the European Union (EU) has increased greatly. A thorough insight into the problem is an important step in developing such a policy. How many firearms are circulating in the EU? How ... read more