Publications
Feel free to browse through our list of Dutch-language publications.
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Firearms acquisition by terrorists in Europe. Research findings and policy recommendations of Project SAFTE Report
Publication date: 18/04/2018
Project SAFTE showed that there is not one unified firearms market in Europe. Rather several disjointed and sometimes interrelated markets with different characteristics, configurations and supply-and-demand mechanisms exist alongside each other within Europe. This report offers a systematic and comparative ... read more
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Triggering Terror: Illicit Gun Markets and Firearms Acquisition of Terrorist Networks in Europe Report
Publication date: 17/04/2018
This edited volume offers an in-depth and detailed insight into Project SAFTE’s research findings. In-depth country studies were conducted in eight EU member states by research teams from the Flemish Peace Institute, SIPRI, SSSA, Arquebus Solutions, Small Arms Survey and ... read more
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Armed to kill: an exploratory analysis of the guns used in public mass shootings in Europe Report
Publication date: 23/06/2016
This report tries to rectify a number of misconceptions about public mass shootings in a balanced way, based on an analysis of the acquisition of the weapons used in such shootings, and have outlined the ways in which political debate ... read more
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Guns for sale: the Belgian illicit gun market in a European perspective Report
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
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Firearms and violent deaths in Europe Report
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 Report
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
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Flemish Foreign Arms Trade 2013 Report
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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Business as usual? Assessing the impact of the Arab Spring on European arms export control policies. Report
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
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Transit of strategic goods in Europe Report
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
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Flemish Foreign Arms Trade 2012 Report
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