Suicide terror is the focus of a two-day forum at USC Jan. 26-27.

"Dying to Win or Dying to Kill?" is the inaugural Walker Institute Forum on U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security, which aims to bring to USC noted experts on timely and controversial topics relating to U.S. foreign policy and national security. The forum will feature suicide terrorism experts Robert Pape from the University of Chicago and Mia Bloom of the University of Cincinnati. Pape and Bloom will shed insight on what has become a troubling phenomenon worldwide.

Pape will speak at 3 p.m. Jan. 26, and Bloom will speak at 1 p.m. Jan. 27. Both talks are free and will be held in Lumpkin Auditorium on the eighth floor of the Moore School of Business building.

Pape is an associate professor of political science whose books include Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, released in 2005. He also has written books on air power and coercion in war and the failure of economic sanctions to achieve peace.

Bloom, an assistant professor, wrote Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror, also released in 2005. She is a scholar in the areas of martyrdom, terrorism, and child soldiers.

For more information, call the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies at 7-7180 or go the www.cas.sc.edu/Iis/.

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