Theme: conventional weapons

• 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

  
• 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 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

  
• Scrutinizing arms exports in Europe: The reciprocal relationship between transparency and parliamentary control External publication

  Information on exports of conventional military equipment was traditionally kept out of the public and political realm. In recent decades this gradually changed, and within the EU, Member States are legally bound to publish an annual report on arms exports ... 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

• 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

• Business as usual? Assessing the impact of the Arab Spring on European arms export control policies. Report

  Authors: Nils Duquet

  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

  
• Transit of strategic goods in Europe Report

  Authors: Kathleen Van Heuverswyn, Nils Duquet

  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