U.S. officials announced Thursday that they have conclusive evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has used chemical weapons against his opposition, an allegation the Syrian government denied on Friday. The following expert from Rutgers–Camden is available to discuss implications of the situation.

MARIE I. CHEVRIER is a professor of public policy at Rutgers–Camden. An internationally-respected weapons and arms control scholar, Chevrier has written extensively about arms control policy and has chaired the BioWeapons Prevention Project, a global network dedicated to the elimination of such weapons. She recently participated in a meeting at the United Nations in Vienna, Austria, in which she discussed the prevention of weapons of mass destruction.

Chevrier is the author of Arms Control Policy: A Guide to the Issues (Praeger, 2012) and her research interests include chemical and biological weapons policy, international negotiations conflict, and conflict resolution. She can be reached at:

E-mail:                  michevrier@gmail.com

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