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• "Silent Victim of War”: Thoughts on the Protection of Environment at Times of Armed Conflicts, with Particular Regard to the Issue of Ecocide

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  Orsolya Johanna Sziebig

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  This paper aims to examine the issue of environmental protection in the context of armed conflicts. First and foremost, through the regulation of public international law, while at the same time raising the moral-religious basis of the issue. In the second half of the paper, I will examine the concept of ecocide and its regulatory framework. In particular, with regard to whether the void left by the regulatory gaps and enforcement deficiencies of international law can be filled by ecocide as an emerging legal regime.

• The Concept of the Responsibility to Protect, Is There Anything New under the Sun?

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  Anikó Szalai

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  313

  The concept of the responsibility to protect has emerged in the practice of the United Nations in the past years, inducing much criticism in the literature. The aim of the author was to present the concept in Hungarian and to analyze it from international legal point of view. According to the author the concept is just a paraphrased principle, responsibility has already existed under the relevant norms of international law. Nevertheless, the content of the obligation and responsibility is not fully clear, especially with respect to the exact meaning of prevention.