Linear regression analyses reveal that intrinsic as well as extrinsic rewards are linked to the former combatants' Appetitive Aggression score.
However, the selection of women who join armed groups may be special and there is no empirical data on gender differences in aggression in combatant populations available.
In doing so, we examined the relationship between receiving rewards and the level of appetitive aggression in former combatants.
In light of these results, we postulate in this study that the nature of rewards might have a significant influence on the level of appetitive aggression of individual combatants.
In examining the influence of some identified micro political factors on the level of appetitive aggression in former Congolese combatants, we will focus on the role of rewards in motivating combatants for participation in armed groups – an issue that has evolved as a dominant theme in conflict research in the last decade [ 26- 28].
As predicted, matrilines with a lower average coefficient of relatedness participated in a higher proportion of fighting-events involving intense aggression in which both combatants were members of that matriline and directed intense aggression at one another (β = −0.48, P<0.0001; Figure 5).
In this study, we examine how receiving rewards (intrinsic versus extrinsic) influence the level of appetitive aggression exhibited by former combatants.
In the language of just war theory, an enemy combatant is guilty of the crime of aggression; and in the context of war, this crime is punishable by death.
The Huffington Post, whose reporter was also detained, said the journalists were subjected to "militant aggression" and treated as "enemy combatants".
These rules include: "Wars should only be fought in response to aggression"; and "During war, non-combatants should not be directly targeted with lethal violence".
