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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Project DIVERT: Non-regularised firearms in the European Union Report
Publication date: 28/04/2021
Project DIVERT focuses on three specific diversion methods; Theft, fraud and non-regularisation. The DIVERT-report you can download below focuses on non-regularisation, more specifically on the diversion of firearms, components and ammunition through conflict legacies, illegal inheritance and regulatory changes in the ... read more
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Reviewing the EU Common Position on arms exports: whither EU arms transfer controls? Report
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
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Firearms and deaths by firearms in the EU Factsheet
Publication date: 11/12/2018
In recent years, policy attention to firearm violence in the European Union (EU) has increased greatly. A thorough insight into the problem is an important step in developing such a policy. How many firearms are circulating in the EU? How ... read more
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Factsheet about Project SAFTE Factsheet
Publication date: 20/04/2018
Project SAFTE is an international research project studying the acquisition of firearms by terrorists in Europe. The project was funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the Flemish Peace Institute (FPI), an independent research institute within the Flemish Parliament. ... read more
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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
