NELSON INSTITUTE DIRECTOR’S CONGRESSIONAL TESTIMONY

February 8, 2006

HARRISONBURG—Dr. J. Peter Pham, director of the Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs at James Madison University testified today in Washington before the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations of the Committee on International Relations of the United States House of Representatives.

 

 

The thirteen-member panel, chaired by Congressman Christopher H. Smith of New Jersey, was conducting an oversight hearing on the impact of the recent elections in Liberia on the West African subregion. In addition to Dr. Pham, other witnesses who called before the subcommittee were Dr. Jendayi E. Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs; Lloyd Pierson, assistant administrator for Africa at the U.S. Agency for International Development; Vivian Lowery Derrick, senior vice president of the Academy for Educational Development; and David Crane, former chief prosecutor of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

For the text of Dr. Pham’s testimony go to http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/109/pha020806.pdf;