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Darfur and the Gendered Face of War: Non-State Actors, Violence and Lessons for Conflict Resolution | Dr. Sello Patrick Rankhumise

What happens when the state no longer has a monopoly on violence and non-state actors shape the rules of war?

In this powerful education-focused episode, Dr. Sello Patrick Rankhumise unpacks the Darfur conflict through the lens of state and non-state actor dynamics, exposing how power, ideology, and structural violence intersect, and why women’s bodies so often become battlefields in modern warfare.
At the centre of the conversation is an urgent and original idea: Negative Learning. The discipline of learning from failure, brutality, and moral collapse, and transforming those lessons into knowledge that can prevent future atrocities.

In this episode, we explore:

• The nexus between state and non-state actors in contemporary conflict
• Key differences between state and non-state actors and why they matter
• How realism, liberalism, constructivism, and Marxism explain conflict behaviour
• Typologies of interaction between states, militias, rebels, and armed groups
• The Darfur conflict as a case study in fragmented authority and violence
• Gender-based violence in Darfur and what it reveals about modern war
• Lessons for conflict resolution and peace building across Africa and beyond
This is not just a historical discussion. It is a forward-looking conversation on how societies can extract wisdom from tragedy and build better systems of governance, justice, and human security.
If you care about conflict studies, African politics, gender and war, peacebuilding, international relations theory, or decolonial perspectives on violence, this episode is essential viewing.

Guest: Dr. Sello Patrick Rankhumise
Category: Education

Theme: Conflict, Gender, Non-State Actors, Peacebuilding
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