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The current study examines the impact of community structural instability on the suicidal behaviors of the indigenous community of the Bedoon in Kuwait. I hypothesize that the Bedoon's lack of documentation and limited opportunities in Kuwait, combined with community structural instability, increase suicide ideation and attempts. The contextual influence of community structural instability should be mediated by weak attachments to social norms and values (anomie) and by contact with suicidal others (attempt and ideation). The data, coming from a survey of 2,583 Bedoon adolescents between 14 and 18 years old, indicate that the community level of residential mobility has a positive, contextual effect on Bedoon suicidal behavior. The findings also indicate that the contextual effect of residential mobility is mediated by both anomie and attempt and ideation and offer the possibility of identifying communities that carry a substantial risk for adolescent suicide as well as the mechanisms that mediate the influence of community structural characteristics on Bedoon adolescent risk behavior.

Since the 50s, Nagaland has endured a relentless fluctuation between elevated violence and hopes of peace. The state has been besieged by decades of armed conflict and unrest over the Naga peoples right to self determination which was invoked on the basis of their distinct identity and unique history. The Naga conflict began with Indias Independence in 1947. The Naga leaders not only resented the subdivision of their traditional homeland, without the consent and knowledge of the Naga people, between India and Burma by the British and Indian hands, but rebelled their incorporation with the new India nation state. When their demand was rejected by the Indian state, they headed for the jungles and started a guerrilla campaign for independence. In the face of unabated armed conflict, the Indian government to repress the movement typically responded with a reinvigorated security presence and operations

One of the most trying issues in electoral studies in Nagaland is the discourse of womens exclusion from the electoral process. There is a visible trend of men dominating the political terrain across the board, whereas the participation and representation of women in politics is invisible. This result in women being outside the centers of decision-making in terms of influence and status that is available to men. Women in Nagaland have been able to strengthen their political visibility only as voters. This paper contextualizes debates over the political status of women within the complex political and cultural space in Nagaland. The structural, institutional and situational barriers in the context of womens political participation and representation are discussed.