Publications

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

• Controversy & Polarisation in the Classroom: Suggestions for Pedagogical Practice Report

  Authors: Maarten Van Alstein

  Publication date: 18/12/2019

  What if discussions about political and societal issues are so turbulent that a class erupts into turmoil and chaos? How can teachers react when a student suddenly launches into an unexpected provocative or hatefilled diatribe in class? How to de-escalate ... 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

• Sustainable EU funding of European defence cooperation?Accountable and transparent coordination of arms export policies needed Report

  Authors: Diederik Cops and Aurélie Buytaert

  Publication date: 03/12/2019

  In 2017 the European Commission launched the European Defence Fund, which will become fully operational in 2021. With this fund, the Commission  will fund collaborative research and development projects on new military products and technologies. Although its primary aim is ... 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

  

• Policy brief ‘Strengthening information-exchange on arms exports’ Report

  Authors: Diederik Cops

  Publication date: 22/11/2018

  The Flemish Peace Institute launches a new publication format: its first policy brief. In these policy briefs, the Institute aims to combine an in depth and thorough analysis with a set of specific recommendations to address the findings and conclusions ... read more

  

• Firearms acquisition by terrorists in Europe. Research findings and policy recommendations of Project SAFTE Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Kevin Goris

  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

• Triggering Terror: Illicit Gun Markets and Firearms Acquisition of Terrorist Networks in Europe Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet

  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

  

• Flemish foreign arms trade 2016 Report

  Authors: Diederik Cops

  Publication date: 16/10/2017

  Summary of the report on Flemish foreign arms trade 2016. This summary describes the main conclusions of recent analyses by the  Peace Institute of the arms export control practices of the Flemish government in 2016. read more

• Towards Europeanised arms export controls? Comparing control systems in EU Member States Report

  Authors: Diederik Cops, Nils Duquet & Gregory Gourdin

  Publication date: 15/06/2017

  This research focuses on the regulation of international trade in military equipment, both within the EU and with non-EU countries. To what extent have European regulatory initiatives succeeded in harmonizing national systems for arms exports? read more

  

• Armed to kill: an exploratory analysis of the guns used in public mass shootings in Europe Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet

  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