José A. Leal Castillo studied Physical Sciences at the Universidad de Sevilla, Psychology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and completed post-graduate studies in Army Psychology. He specialized in Operational Research at the Institute of Statistics (UCM) and in International Defence Management at the Monterey Naval Postgraduate School (California, USA). He has taken courses in Introduction to Cooperation in Development and Introduction to Human Rights at the Centre for Anthropological Studies in Madrid. He obtained his doctorate in Psychology from UNED. He has been head of Higher Education in the army and professor at UCM on the Master in Advanced Analysis of Data and Construction of Models, analysing topics of social projection (Revista de Metodología de las CC del Comportamiento, Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Revista de Psicología Política).