Publications

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

• 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

  

• 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

• Firearms acquisition and the terrorism-criminality nexus’, in T. Renard (red.), Counterterrorism in Belgium: Key challenges and policy options External publication

  In his contribution Duquet explores the deadly connection between terrorism and illicit firearms acquisition, starting from the fact that the Paris and Brussels attackers bought their assault rifles in Belgium via pre-existing criminal ties. After describing the illicit firearms market ... 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

• Excavating a hidden past:’ The forensic turn in Spain’s collective memory External publication

  The book Excavating Memory gives an overview of historical and sociocultural approaches to memory as a contested social practice in the present rather than as a passive recollection of the past. Lore Colaert wrote a chapter on forensic exhumations as ... read more

• Dealing with Radicalisation: Four reflections on Flemish radicalization policy Report

  Authors: Jorg Kustermans

  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

• Firearms and violent deaths in Europe Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet & Maarten Van Alstein

  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

  

• Won’t you, please, please help me?’ The role of parents and juveniles in the problematisation of their own pedagogic situation (1983-2004) External publication

  It’s for your own good begins with the finding that  the Belgian youth justice system is often described as one of the most welfare oriented in Europe. In recent decades, several Western European countries have abandoned welfarism and have taken ... read more

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

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Maarten Van Alstein

  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 Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet, Tomas Baum

  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