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Verified Early Warning, Lawful Reporting and Community Safety: Church Engagement and Perceived Insecurity Reduction in Abuja, Nigeria

1. Syrenius Dangana Okoriko
   Department of Christian Studies and Religious Communication, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria
2. Charles Ogundu Nnaji
   Department of Christian Studies and Religious Communication, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria
3. Adeola Kehinde
   Department of Christian Studies and Religious Communication, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria

Abstract

Background: Community-security engagement and early-warning support is frequently invoked in Christian responses to insecurity, but its relationship with community-level outcomes requires specific measurement. Objective: To determine the relationship between community-security engagement and early-warning support and perceived reduction of community insecurity (PRCI) in the FCT, Abuja. Methods: The study used the 586-response CECIQ household survey drawn from 24 clusters across all six FCT Area Councils. Scale reliability, item distributions, weighted Spearman association and the prespecified survey-weighted simultaneous model were examined; the full model used 366 complete cases and Holm correction across five hypotheses. Results: CSEW had weighted M=3.652 (SD=0.868), α=0.800, ω=0.803. Its weighted association with PRCI was ρ=0.445 (pairwise n=503). In the full model, B=0.269, 95% CI [.161, .376], standardized β=0.284, Holm p=<.001, with ΔR²=0.059. The relationship remained positive in the equal-weight sensitivity analysis. Conclusion:

Keywords: early warning; community security; church engagement; risk communication; lawful reporting; safeguarding; human security; Abuja

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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