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Nils Duquet
Nils Duquet
Interim Director, Flemish Peace Institute (website)
twitter: @NDuquet

email:
nils [dot] duquet [at] vlaamsparlement [dot] be
phone:
+32 2552452
(Belgium)

global trade data/trends | small arms and light weapons (SALW) | Europe | arms trafficking | strategic trade control

Nils Duquet is a director ad interim at the Flemish Peace Institute, an independent research institute dedicated to peace research and hosted by the Flemish Parliament (Belgium).

 
He has been working at the Flemish Peace Institute since 2006 and has authored more than 50 policy-oriented and academic publications on topics such as illicit firearms trafficking, gun violence, terrorist access to illicit weapons markets, domestic gun policies and arms export controls in Europe.
 
Nils is the research coordinator of Project DIVERT (https://vlaamsvredesinstituut.eu/en/divert/) an international research project on the diversion of firearms and ammunition from the legal into the illegal market in the European Union. He also coordinated the research activities of Project SAFTE (https://www.flemishpeaceinstitute.eu/safte/index.html), an international comparative study on terrorist access to illicit gun markets in Europe. As a research consultant he has has recently worked on UNIDIR and UNODC projects on illicit firearms trafficking in Europe and terrorist access to weapons.  
 
He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and in Sociology from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.



​Recent Publications:
  • ​"Illicit Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts, Components and Ammunition to, from and across the European Union," UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), 2020.​
  • “Illicit firearms trafficking in Europe during and after COVID-19”, Flemish Peace Institute, 2 June 2020.
  • "Reviewing the EU Common Position on arms exports: whither EU arms transfer controls?," Flemish Peace Institute, December 3, 2019.
  • "Armed to Kill: A comprehensive analysis of the guns used in public mass shootings in Europe between 2009 and 2018," October 3, 2019.
  • ​“Q&A:What is the impact of the internet on illicit weapon markets in Europe?” Flemish Peace Institute,  June 13, 2019.
  • "The 2018 EU SALW Strategy: Towards an Integrated and Comprehensive Approach," No. 62, EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Paper, April 2019.​
  • "Triggering Terror: Illicit Gun Markets and Firearms Acquisition of Terrorist Networks in Europe," Flemish Peace Institute, April 2017.
  • “Firearms acquisition by terrorists in Europe. Research findings and policy recommendations of Project SAFTE”, Flemish Peace Institute,  April 2017. 
  • ​"Humanitarian Arms Control II," EU Non-Proliferation Consortium E-Learning Course, March 2016.
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