Rommel Banlaoi is the Chairman of the Board and Executive Director of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research and Head of its Center for Intelligence and National Security Studies. He is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Yuchengco Center of De La Salle University, Manila where he heads its Regional Security and Foreign Relations program.
Clearly, Banlaoi is well-versed in Philippine security issues as evidenced by his description of the internal security challenges of the Philippines and institutional framework that has been established to deal with them. The extensively footnoted chapters on radical Muslim terrorism and local government responses to terrorist threats provide detailed descriptions of various Mindanao-based terrorist/insurgency groups and the government's strategy for dealing with them. ... a useful starting point for developing a more rigorous analysis of the securitization process in the Philippines ... . -Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 32, No. 2, August 2010