With the accelerated pace of urbanization and increasing complexity of social structures, communities today face a multitude of safety challenges, including fires, theft, and natural disasters. Traditional community governance models have demonstrated limitations in addressing such risks. Community safety education, as a key approach to enhancing residents’ awareness and capacity for risk prevention, has become increasingly integrated with community governance, forming an inevitable trend. This paper explores a new pathway whereby community safety education empowers community governance. It begins by explicating the relevant concepts of community safety education and community governance, followed by an analysis of the necessity of their integration in enhancing safety levels, addressing residents’ security needs, and promoting innovative governance practices. Moreover, the paper examines the feasibility of integration in light of policy support, community resources, and technological development. It further identifies existing issues at the educational, governance, and coordination levels in the integration process, and finally proposes guiding principles and implementation strategies—including the integration of resources for educational base construction,the organization of diversified activities, the provision of specialized training through joint schooling, the establishment of networks, and the creation of incentive mechanisms—thereby offering a valuable reference for the collaborative development of community safety and governance.

Zhe Ren, Tianming Song. Empowering Community Governance through Community Safety Education: A New Pathway. Academic Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences (2025), Vol. 8, Issue 5: 68-77. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJHSS.2025.080510.

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