Ignacio Cano

Ignacio Cano got his joint Ph.D. in sociology and social psychology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 1991. From 1991 to 1993 he worked in attention to refugees and war-stricken populations in El Salvador, with UNHCR. He was also a member of the United Nations Truth Commission for El Salvador. He later developed post-doctoral research at the universities of Surrey (UK), Michigan, Arizona (USA) and Lancaster (UK), centred on research methodology and programme evaluation. From 1996 onwards, he has worked in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on topics related to violence, human rights, public security and education in an NGO called ISER. In 2000, he joined the department of social sciences of the State University of Rio de Janeiro, as an assistant professor of research methodology. He is now a full professor of sociology in the same university. He is a founder of the Laboratory for the Analysis of Violence (LAV) of the same university. Over the last 20 years, he has researched di