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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