Rommel C. Banlaoi

1970

Professor Rommel C. Banlaoi is the Chairman of the Board and the Executive Director of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) and Head of its Center for Intelligence and National Security Studies. He is a recipient of Albani Peace Prize Award (Peace Education) in 2011 along with former Philippine President Corazon C. Aquino (posthumous award for public service) and Moro National Liberation Front founder, Nur Misuari (for peace process), among others. Professor Banlaoi currently teaches at the Department of International Studies of Miriam College, Philippines while serving as a Senior Fellow at the Yuchengco Center of De La Salle University and Vice President of the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies (PACS). He worked as professor of political science at the National Defense College of the Philippines (where he became Vice President), assistant professor in international studies at De La Salle University, instructor in political science at the University of the Philippines (Los Banos), and University Research Associate at the University of the Philippines (Diliman), where he took his BA, MA and PhD (ABD status) all in Political Science. He also became an Executive Director of Strategic and Integrative Studies Center, Director for Research of World Citi Colleges and Founding Center Director of the Mayor's Development Center of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines. Professor Banlaoi is the author of a terrorism trilogy: Philippine Security in the Age of Terror (2010), Counter-Terrorism Measures in Southeast Asia (2009) and War on Terrorism in Southeast Asia (2004). He has also authored at least 75 journal articles and book chapters published in the Philippines and abroad on regional security issues, Philippine foreign and defense policy, Philippine electoral politics, terrorism, and the peace process. **Rommel C. Banlaoi contact:** Rommel C. Banlaoi Chairman of the Board & Executive Director Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research (PIPVTR) 2nd Floor, CPDRI Room, Asian Institute of Tourism, University of the Philippines, Commonwealth Avenue, Quezon City Email: rbanlaoi@pipvtr.com or rbanlaoi@yahoo.com URL: www.pipvtr.com

• Security Aspects of Philippines-China Relations: Bilateral Issues and Concerns in the Age of Global Terrorism
• AL Harakatul Al Islamiyyah
• Counter Terrorism Measures in Southeast Asia
• Elections in the Philippines
• Philippine security in the age of terror
• Philippine security in the age of terror
• Political parties in the Philippines from 1900 to the present
• Security Cooperation in the ASEAN Regional Forum and the European Union
• The Amsterdam Treaty and the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy: The Politics of Defense and Foreign Policy Making in the Context of Intergovernmental Conferences
• The ASEAN Regional Forum, the South China Sea Disputes, and the Functionalist Option
• The Philippines and Australia: Defense and Security Cooperation Against Terrorism
• War on terrorism in Southeast Asia