ABSTRACT
This chapter alludes to the men's varying reflections upon several issues as follows. (1) The morality and appropriateness of their violence against others and their attempts to justify this. (2) The 'types' of men they considered themselves to be, their 'masculinity', self-identities and how this is related to violence. (3) Their perceptions and understandings of their roles as father figures, in particular to young boys within their families, and how issues of morality, violence and masculinity inform this. The availability of languages of justifiable violence, as revolutionary or self-defensive, offers perpetrators in general a view of themselves as powerless victims. What emerges strongly from the men's reflections is a general point of consensus and agreement among them that their everyday life world is threatening, potentially dangerous and morally ambiguous. Discussion of fatherhood with some of the participants reveals a contradictory tension that lies at the heart of these men's relationships with the children in their lives, particularly sons.
