Kjersti G. Berg

Kjersti G. Berg (b 1975, Norway) is a post-doctoral researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen. 

Berg’s areas of research are the Palestine-Israel conflict, Palestinian refugees and international aid. Her PhD (2015, UiB) was the first in-depth study of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian refugee camps. 

Berg is part of the FRIPRO project "SuperCamp: Genealogies of humanitarian containment in the Middle East". At CMI she teaches the Arab-Israeli conflict and Middle Eastern history.

She is currently writing a book about Palestine (in Norwegian), on a stipend from Norsk faglitterær forfatterforening.