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苏丹的全球内战：赋能者与搅局者的地缘政治
Sudan's Global Civil War: A Geopolitics of Enablers and Spoilers
Time: November 13, 2026 12:00-14:00
Venue: Room C105, School of International Studies, Peking University
Language：English
Speaker：Mohamed Abdelrahim Salih，Emeritus Professor of Development Politics, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam
Moderator:Liu Haifang, Director of Centre for African Studies, Peking University
Introduction of the Speaker
Mohamed Salih is Emeritus Professor of Politics of Development at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. His research interests include the politics of development, environmental politics, sustainable development, climate change, and governance issues in Africa, the Middle East, and the Global South. In addition, Professor Salih was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, alongside former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, in recognition of their efforts to disseminate knowledge about climate change and lay the foundations for the measures needed to counteract it.
Professor Mohamed Salih's research, publications, and policy advice focus on the politics of development, environmental politics and sustainable development, climate change politics, society and democracy, and political institutions. He recently published books, including A Political Economy of the Development of Asymmetrical Regionalism in Africa, co-authored with Professor Wil Hout. He authored Development Theory and Climate Change , Economic Development and Political Action in the Arab World, and edited Local Climate Change and Society.
Abstract
This lecture takes Sudan’s civil war as a starting point to explore the conceptual boundaries and global dimensions of civil war. Civil war is commonly understood as armed conflict between the state and rebel forces, or between, and sometimes within, ethnic, religious, or ideological communities. Yet how can a conflict within a country that lacks structural power in the productive, scientific, technological, military, economic, and financial spheres be understood as a “global civil war”? To address this question, the lecture examines the Islamic counter-narrative that permeates Sudan’s war, focusing on its claim to a universality beyond established norms of global governance and how this claim gives the conflict intellectual and political significance beyond national borders. By examining the relationships between religious thought, political narratives, and the global order, the lecture reassesses the nature of Sudan’s war and offers new perspectives on the global dimensions of contemporary civil wars and the challenges they pose to the existing order.
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时间：2026年11月13日，12:00-14:00
地点：北京大学国际关系学院C105会议室
讲座语言：英语
主讲人：荷兰伊拉斯谟大学国际社会研究院（ISS）发展政治学荣休教授
主持人: 刘海方，北京大学非洲研究中心主任
个人简介：
荷兰伊拉斯谟大学国际社会研究院（ISS）发展政治学荣休教授。研究领域包括发展政治、环境政治、可持续发展、气候变化，以及非洲、中东与全球南方的治理问题。除此之外，萨利赫教授还是2007年诺贝尔和平奖共同获得者（同美国前副总统戈尔），因其在“传播关于气候变化的大量知识所付出的努力及在寻找抵御气候变化所必须采取的措施方面所作出的贡献”。
萨利赫教授的研究、学术出版物及政策咨询工作主要聚焦于发展政治学、环境政治与可持续发展、气候变化政治、社会与民主以及政治制度等领域。近年来，萨利赫教授出版了多部学术著作。其中，他与威尔·豪特（Wil Hout）教授合著的《非洲非对称区域主义发展的政治经济学》；独著《发展理论与气候变化》、《阿拉伯世界的经济发展与政治行动》；以及主编《地方气候变化与社会》。
讲座摘要：
本次讲座以苏丹内战为切入点，探讨内战的概念边界及其全球意涵。内战通常被理解为国家与反叛力量之间的战争，或发生于族群、宗教及意识形态群体之间乃至内部的武装冲突。然而，一个在生产、科技、军事及经济金融领域缺乏结构性权力的国家，其内部战争何以被理解为一场“全球性内战”？围绕这一问题，讲座将重点考察贯穿苏丹战争的伊斯兰反叙事，分析其所蕴含的超越既有全球治理规范的普遍性主张，以及这种主张如何赋予战争超越国界的思想与政治意义。通过对宗教思想、政治叙事与全球秩序之间关系的讨论，讲座将重新审视苏丹战争的性质，为理解当代内战的全球性及其对既有秩序的挑战提供新的思考。