Theme: firearms
Project SAFTE: Take a look at the project here
Project DIVERT: Take a look at the project here
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Firearms acquisition by terrorists in Europe. Research findings and policy recommendations of Project SAFTE Report
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
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Triggering Terror: Illicit Gun Markets and Firearms Acquisition of Terrorist Networks in Europe Report
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
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Armed to kill: an exploratory analysis of the guns used in public mass shootings in Europe Report
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
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Guns for sale: the Belgian illicit gun market in a European perspective Report
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
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Firearms and violent deaths in Europe Report
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
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Illegal firearms in Belgium Factsheet
Publication date: 05/01/2015
The term “illegal arms” does not say much about the nature of the arms. Whether an arm is legal or illegal mainly depends on who owns, sells or uses it. While most people are prohibited from owning or using automatic ... read more
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Advice concerning the global Arms Trade Treaty Advice
Publication date: 11/03/2013
In the framework of the negotiations concerning a global Arms Trade Treaty in March 2013, the Flemish Peace Institute launched an advice to the Federal and Regional Governments of Belgium, as well as other actors involved in the negotiations, to address ... read more
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Gun Ownership in Belgium Report
Publication date: 19/09/2012
This report sheds some light on the size and nature of gun ownership in Belgium through (1) the official statistics of the Belgian Central Weapons Register and the databases of provincial weapons administrations, and (2) the results of telephone surveysthe ... read more
