ABSTRACT
The tree of violence continues to grow all over the world but it has managed to deepen its roots more so in countries like the Philippines that have relatively weaker implementation of anti-terrorism and anti-money laundering laws as compared to its Southeast Asian neighbours. There is a strong need to engage in the full complexity of terrorist financing in order to properly understand and conceptualise it, and this engagement in these factors helps to address the problem of obtaining and processing empirical data in the course of doing fieldwork. The empirical realities of terrorist financing activity show that traditional state, legal, and moral boundaries are often insignificant and thus lose their analytic import, meaning in turn that the analyses within the terrorism debates that are based on such factors are of only very limited relevance.
