Church-Led Social Capital and Public-Health Approaches to Youth Violence in Urban Zimbabwe: Perspectives from Church Leaders

Youth violence in Zimbabwe’s high-density suburbs has evolved into a severe public-health emergency, entrenching trauma, fuelling substance abuse, and amplifying structural inequities. Christian churches remain the most pervasive civic institutions in these settings, commanding high moral authority,...

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Published in:Social sciences (Basel) Vol. 14; no. 10; p. 602
Main Author: Ndlovu, James
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.10.2025
Subjects:
Activism
Adverse childhood experiences
Ambivalence
Analysis
Assaults
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Children
Christian leadership
Christianity
Chronic illnesses
church leaders
Churches
Constraints
Domestic violence
Drug abuse
Ecology
Economic crisis
Economic models
Ethical aspects
Evidence-based medicine
Firearms
Healing
Health
Health aspects
Health planning
Inequality
Interviews
Morality
Murders & murder attempts
Nonviolence
Pentecostals
Political leadership
political violence
Positioning
Prevention
Psychosocial factors
Public health
Religious aspects
Religious organizations
Sampling
Scarcity
Snowball sampling
Social aspects
Social capital
Social capital (Sociology)
Socioeconomic factors
Substance abuse
Sustainable development
Teenagers
Trauma
Urban areas
Violence
Youth
Youth violence
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
United States > US
ISSN:2076-0760, 2076-0760
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Abstract Youth violence in Zimbabwe’s high-density suburbs has evolved into a severe public-health emergency, entrenching trauma, fuelling substance abuse, and amplifying structural inequities. Christian churches remain the most pervasive civic institutions in these settings, commanding high moral authority, psychosocial reach, and convening power. However, the mechanisms by which churches mitigate violence, and the constraints they face, continue to be under-researched. Grounded in socio-economic model lens and faith-based social capital theory, this study interrogates the intersections between youth violence and church responses in Zimbabwe’s urban centres. The study adopts a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews with church leaders. Twenty (20) church leaders from mainline, Pentecostal, and Apostolic traditions were recruited through purposive and snowball sampling to capture denominational diversity and varying levels of programme engagement. Interviews probed leaders’ perceptions of youth-violence drivers, theological framings of non-violence, practical interventions (e.g., trauma-healing liturgies, anti-drug ministries, peer-mentorship schemes), and institutional constraints such as resource scarcity and political pressures. Data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. The findings indicate three interconnected mechanisms through which churches mitigate the cycle of violence. Nevertheless, gendered participation gaps, theological ambivalence toward activism, and limited alignment with municipal safety strategies continue to pose challenges to these efforts. By positioning churches within Zimbabwe’s broader violence-prevention ecology, the study offers an empirically grounded blueprint for integrating faith actors into city-level public-health strategies and contributes towards evidence-based, structural solutions to urban youth violence.
AbstractList Youth violence in Zimbabwe’s high-density suburbs has evolved into a severe public-health emergency, entrenching trauma, fuelling substance abuse, and amplifying structural inequities. Christian churches remain the most pervasive civic institutions in these settings, commanding high moral authority, psychosocial reach, and convening power. However, the mechanisms by which churches mitigate violence, and the constraints they face, continue to be under-researched. Grounded in socio-economic model lens and faith-based social capital theory, this study interrogates the intersections between youth violence and church responses in Zimbabwe’s urban centres. The study adopts a qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews with church leaders. Twenty (20) church leaders from mainline, Pentecostal, and Apostolic traditions were recruited through purposive and snowball sampling to capture denominational diversity and varying levels of programme engagement. Interviews probed leaders’ perceptions of youth-violence drivers, theological framings of non-violence, practical interventions (e.g., trauma-healing liturgies, anti-drug ministries, peer-mentorship schemes), and institutional constraints such as resource scarcity and political pressures. Data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. The findings indicate three interconnected mechanisms through which churches mitigate the cycle of violence. Nevertheless, gendered participation gaps, theological ambivalence toward activism, and limited alignment with municipal safety strategies continue to pose challenges to these efforts. By positioning churches within Zimbabwe’s broader violence-prevention ecology, the study offers an empirically grounded blueprint for integrating faith actors into city-level public-health strategies and contributes towards evidence-based, structural solutions to urban youth violence.
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SubjectTerms Activism
Adverse childhood experiences
Ambivalence
Analysis
Assaults
Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
Children
Christian leadership
Christianity
Chronic illnesses
church leaders
Churches
Constraints
Domestic violence
Drug abuse
Ecology
Economic crisis
Economic models
Ethical aspects
Evidence-based medicine
Firearms
Healing
Health
Health aspects
Health planning
Inequality
Interviews
Morality
Murders & murder attempts
Nonviolence
Pentecostals
Political leadership
political violence
Positioning
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Psychosocial factors
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Sampling
Scarcity
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Social aspects
Social capital
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