Category:Alison Des Forges

**Alison Des Forges**
	American historian and human rights activist
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Date of birth	20 August 1942; Schenectady; Alison B. Liebhafsky
Date of death	12 February 2009; Clarence Center
Manner of death	accidental death (Colgan Air Flight 3407);
Country of citizenship	United States of America;
Residence	Buffalo (2009); Rwanda;
Educated at	Radcliffe College; Harvard University; Yale University (Doctor of Philosophy, study of history, –1972);
Occupation	historian; human rights activist;
Native language	American English;
Father	Herman Alfred Liebhafsky;
Award received	MacArthur Fellows Program (1999); Bruno-Kreisky Award for a political book (2003);
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English: Alison Des Forges (née Liebhafsky) (August 20, 1942 – February 12, 2009) was an American historian and human rights activist who specialized in the African Great Lakes region, particularly the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. At the time of her death, she was a senior advisor for the African continent at Human Rights Watch.