Out of Prison

Dr. Nicolás Buckley holds a bachelor's degree in Political Science from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. During his undergraduate studies, he spent an Erasmus year at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Upon graduation, he completed a master's degree in Dispute and Conflict Resolution at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Afterwards, he completed his doctoral thesis on the oral life stories of ETA activists (Basque Conflict), in the Department of History at Royal Holloway-University of London. During this period, he also worked as a researcher at the Cañada Blanch Centre for Spanish Contemporary Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Nowdays, Buckley is a professor at the Universidad Metropolitana del Ecuador, where he is working on his new book based on the oral life stories of the guerrilla "Alfaro Vive Carajo."