Theme: conventional weapons

• European Defence Cooperation: Relevance and challenges for national arms export control policies Factsheet

  Publication date: 24/10/2023

  Download the integral version of Diederik Cops‘ analysis here.  Defence and security are traditionally considered to be exclusive national competences. But more recently, the EU and its Member States have increased European defence cooperation. The initiatives set up to strengthen ... read more

  
• Technologies to counter the diversion of small arms and light weapons, and components of conventional weapons Report

  Authors: Sarah Grand-Clément, Diederik Cops

  Publication date: 24/08/2023

  There are many ways in which technology could help to counter the diversion of conventional weapons. Yet despite some discussions in international meetings on conventional arms control, we see limited evidence of technologies being used to strengthen or enhance efforts ... read more

  
• Due diligence and corporate liability of the defence industry: Arms exports, end use and corporate responsibility Report

  Authors: Machiko Kanetake, Cedric Ryngaert

  Publication date: 10/05/2023

  This report (download it in full here) adds new elements to the discussion of due diligence and liability with defence companies as a way of preventing and mitigating the adverse impacts of military exports. Due diligence is a frequently used ... 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

  
• 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

  
• Flemish Foreign Arms Trade and Trade in Dual Use Items 2009 Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet

  Publication date: 17/03/2010

  This report analyzes the Flemish Foreign Arms Trade and Trade in Dual Use Items in 2009. read more

• The Belgian regime for the control of brokering in military and dual-use items Report

  Authors: Kathleen Van Heuverswyn

  Publication date: 02/03/2010

  Brokering is a separate category of activity in the international trade in military. − materials and dual–use goods. Brokers act as intermediaries to facilitate. This report looks into the Belgian framework for the control on military goods. read more