Theme: firearms
Project SAFTE: Take a look at the project here
Project DIVERT: Take a look at the project here
Project TARGET: Take a look at the project here
Project INSIGHT: Take a look at the project here
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The nexus between drug markets and gun violence in the European Union Report
Publication date: 07/11/2023
This background paper written by Astrid De Schutter and Nils Duquet of the Flemish Peace Institute and commissioned by EMCDDA (The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction) shows the central role of the Rotterdam and Antwerp ports in ... read more
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Pulling the trigger: gun violence in Europe Report
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
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Project TARGET: Targeting gun violence & trafficking in Europe Report
Publication date: 13/12/2021
Project TARGET is a comprehensive research project that explores the links between the different types of firearms trafficking and gun violence in all EU Member States and the Western Balkans. How does illicit firearms trafficking impact gun violence in Europe? ... read more
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Public mass shootings in Europe: how did the weapons fall into the wrong hands? Factsheet
Publication date: 03/10/2019
This factsheet summarizes the most important findings of the report “Armed to Kill” on the firearms acquisition of the perpetrators of public mass shootings in Europe between 2009-2018 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
