Armed conflicts trigger diverse forms of violence and human rights violations, including displacement, loss of livelihoods, and infrastructural damage, which exacerbate poverty and perpetuate cycles of deprivation. In conflict-affected regions like Syunik in Armenia. In these kind of areas where insecurity and instability prevail, poverty is deeply intertwined with unpredictability, exclusion, and lack of empowerment. Conventional poverty measures, focusing on income or consumption metrics, fail to adequately capture the multidimensional nature of deprivation in such contexts.
By integrating concepts from the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), this paper opens a discussion of possible methodological gaps in analyzing poverty in conflict-affected areas, and explores critical factors such as safety, predictability, and cohesion, which are essential for addressing both the consequences and root causes of poverty. The study emphasizes the role of empowerment in breaking the cycle of poverty and proposes enhancements to poverty analysis frameworks. These include incorporating dimensions that measure safety, social cohesion, and individual agency, thereby offering policymakers actionable insights to address the structural vulnerabilities in conflict-affected contexts.