Kjersti is a postdoctor research fellow and co-manageer of the research project "SuperCamp: Geneaologies of humanitarian containment in the Middle East", funded by the Norwegian Research Council. She works on displacement, refugees and humanitarianism in the Middle East.

Kjersti's special competence is the Palestinian refugee question, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and refugee camps. The title of her PhD thesis is "Unending temporary. United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the politics of humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugee camps" (University of Bergen, 2015).

Kjersti is currently working on a research project on Syrian and Palestinian refugees from Syria, who have fled to Gaza after 2011. This forms part of the project "Urban Displacement, Development and Donor Policies in the Middle East".

Kjersti is a contributor to the "Invisible Ceiling" project, exploring financial exclusion of muslim immigrant entrepeneurs in Norway.

More broadly she works on Palestine-Israel, including Jerusalem; water; Norwegian and international aid to Palestinians. She has a long experience in teaching the Israel-Palestine conflict, migration, human rights, Middle East history, and in supervising students. Her experiences include large-scale reserach coordination and research communication. In 2022 she is publishing a book on Palestine in Norwegian, on a stipend from Norsk faglitterær forfatterforening (Scandinavian University Press, 2022).

Most recent publications

Book Chapter | forthcoming 2023

“Construction, Destruction, and Reconstruction of Palestinian Refugee camps”

Kjersti G. Berg

Reconstructing Oxymorons. Palestinian Refugee camps and the case of Nahr el Bared

Blog post | Mar 2023

Book blog - Continental encampment?

Are John Knudsen & Kjersti G. Berg

Book | Mar 2023

Palestina. Fakta på bakken

Kjersti G. Berg

Book Chapter | Feb 2023

A Necessary Evil: A History of Palestinian Refugee Camps, UNRWA and Jordan, 1950–1970

Kjersti G. Berg

Continental Encampment. Genealogy of humanitarian containment in the Middle East and Europe

Edited Book | Feb 2023

CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

Are John Knudsen & Kjersti G. Berg (Eds.)

CMI Report | 2022

UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward

Kjersti G. Berg, Jørgen Jensehaugen, Åge A. Tiltnes

Blog post | 2022

The genealogy of refugee camps in the Middle East

Are Knudsen and Kjersti Berg

Journal Article | 2021

Mu'askar and Shu'fat: Retracing the Histories of Two Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jerusalem

Kjersti G. Berg

Jerusalem Quarterly

Blog post | 2021

Supercamp: The Middle East as a Regional Zone of Containment

Are John Knudsen, Kjersti G. Berg

Book Review | 2021

Political Economy of Palestine. Critical, Interdisciplinary and Decolonial Perspective

Kjersti G. Berg

Book Notes - Journal of Peace Research

Conference Paper / Presentation | 2021

UNRWA, the Refugee and the Camp: Imageries, Representations and Practice

Kjersti G. Berg

Radio and TV appearance | 2021

TV2 Nyhetskanalen

Kjersti G. Berg

Kjersti G. Berg

“Construction, Destruction, and Reconstruction of Palestinian Refugee camps”

Book blog - Continental encampment?

Palestina. Fakta på bakken

A Necessary Evil: A History of Palestinian Refugee Camps, UNRWA and Jordan, 1950–1970

CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

Exhibition: More than the humanitarian gaze

UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward

The genealogy of refugee camps in the Middle East

Mu'askar and Shu'fat: Retracing the Histories of Two Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jerusalem

Supercamp: The Middle East as a Regional Zone of Containment

Political Economy of Palestine. Critical, Interdisciplinary and Decolonial Perspective

UNRWA, the Refugee and the Camp: Imageries, Representations and Practice

TV2 Nyhetskanalen

The Invisible Ceiling

Urban Displacement, Development and Donor Policies in the Middle East (URBAN3DP)

SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East

Mu'askar and Shu'fat: Retracing the Histories of Two Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jerusalem

Midlertidig og evig: UNRWA og det palestinske flyktningspørsmålet

“Vatn og Palestinakonflikten” [Water and the Palestine conflict]

"Fra Yeshiva til det israelske militæret. Det ultraortodokse samfunnet i Israel i endring"

Palestina. Fakta på bakken

CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

“Construction, Destruction, and Reconstruction of Palestinian Refugee camps”

A Necessary Evil: A History of Palestinian Refugee Camps, UNRWA and Jordan, 1950–1970

From chaos to order and back: the construction of UNRWA shelters and camps, 1950–1970

Gendering Refugees. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Politics of Relief

”Utenrikspolitikk og vann i Midtøsten” [Foreign Politics and Water in the Middle East]

UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward

The unending temporary. United Nations Relief and works agency and the politics of humanitarian assistance to Palestinian refugee camps 1950- 2012

Political Economy of Palestine. Critical, Interdisciplinary and Decolonial Perspective

The Evolving Infrastructure of Palestinian Refugee Camps. Perpetuating the Temporary

Dag Henrik Tuastad: Palestinske utfordringer

“Islam, kvinner og menneskerettar i Iran” [Islam, women and human rights in Iran]

“Vi skulle bygge et nytt Jerusalem. Intervju med Håkon Lie” [We were building a new Jerusalem]

UNRWA, the Refugee and the Camp: Imageries, Representations and Practice

Unending temporary. UNRWA and the Palestinian refugee camps

Comments to "The politics and aesthetic of waiting in Palestinian refugee camps"

Humanitarian Containment? United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Refugee Question

Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and the Shu ́fat refugee camp in Jerusalem

No sanctuary in the City: The case of Shu´fat camp, Jerusalem

On the Margins: Shu’fat Refugee Camp 1960-2018

Okkupasjonen på gateplan

Gazastripen etter våpenhvilen

Korona i Israel og Palestina: Ett virus, tre systemer

Trump straffer de svakeste palestinerne

Ingen trygg havn for palestinske flyktninger fra Syria

Raseri i Jerusalem

Det humanitære paradokset (The humanitarian paradox)

P2 Nyhetsmorgen

TV2 Nyhetskanalen

Brannen i Moria: Grenser, migrasjon og politikk

Occupied Life. A conversation with Raja Shehaden and Penny Johnson

Hotel Shatila: Architectures of encampment in Sabra, Beirut

Preventing Palestine: Why statelessness is so important. A conversation with Seth Anziska

An occupied life. A conversation with Raja Shehadeh

Book blog - Continental encampment?

The genealogy of refugee camps in the Middle East

Supercamp: The Middle East as a Regional Zone of Containment

The politics of refugee relief: UNRWA and the ongoing funding crisis

SuperCamp: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East

Contact

Middle East researcher working on the Palestine-Israel conflict, Palestinian refugees and international aid.

“Construction, Destruction, and Reconstruction of Palestinian Refugee camps”

Book blog - Continental encampment?

Palestina. Fakta på bakken

A Necessary Evil: A History of Palestinian Refugee Camps, UNRWA and Jordan, 1950–1970

CONTINENTAL ENCAMPMENT: Genealogies of Humanitarian Containment in the Middle East and Europe

UNRWA, funding crisis and the way forward

The genealogy of refugee camps in the Middle East

Mu'askar and Shu'fat: Retracing the Histories of Two Palestinian Refugee Camps in Jerusalem

Supercamp: The Middle East as a Regional Zone of Containment

Political Economy of Palestine. Critical, Interdisciplinary and Decolonial Perspective

UNRWA, the Refugee and the Camp: Imageries, Representations and Practice

TV2 Nyhetskanalen