Kjersti Gravelsæter Berg
Associate Professor
NLA University College | Sandviken, Bergen
Competence
Kjersti G. Berg is a Middle East researcher and historian working on Palestinian history. Key research areas are refugee camps, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Jerusalem, international (and Norwegian) aid to Palestinians, humanitarianism, and statebuilding.
Intercultural meetings, diversity and inclusion (NLA University College)
The Middle East and Islamic Africa (University of Bergen)
PhD history, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, Norway (2015)
Title of PhD dissertation "Unending Temporary. United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the politics of Palestinian refugee camps."
Title of PhD dissertation "Unending Temporary. United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the politics of Palestinian refugee camps."
Course leader
IKS 105: Regional specialisation: Israel-Palestine
IKS 224: Refugees, forced migration, and integration
IKS 225: Menneskerettigheter i et interkulturelt perspektiv
Contributes to other courses: IKS master, REL214, IKS101, IKS102, IKS104, IKS220, IKS219
IKS 105: Regional specialisation: Israel-Palestine
IKS 224: Refugees, forced migration, and integration
IKS 225: Menneskerettigheter i et interkulturelt perspektiv
Contributes to other courses: IKS master, REL214, IKS101, IKS102, IKS104, IKS220, IKS219
Participant, academic network project "Palestine in the archive", NorPal, Norsk konsortium for høyere utdanning i Palestina (2026-)
Editor of "Palestine", SNL Norwegian Online Encyclopedia (2024-)
Participant in project "How to teach Palestine/Israel in Norwegian schools" (UiB, Raftostiftelsen, NLA, 2023-2026)
Member of Prize Comittee, The Rafto prize for Human Rights (2022-2026)
Participant in research project "Invisible Ceiling: Muslim Immigrant Entrepeneurs Navigate Norway’s Financial Environment" (2022-2024)
Co-curator, photo exhibition "More than the humanitarian gaze. Jørgen Grinde’s photography from the Middle East in the 1950s" University of Bergen (2020-2023).
Researcher, "Consequences of the Israeli UNRWA Ban", Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (PRIO, 2024-2025)
Researcher, "UNRWA's funding challenges and services on the West Bank and in Jordan", Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FAFO 2023)
Lead researcher, "UNRWA funding crisis and the way forward", Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2022)
Team member, Palestine Refugee Policy Forum (2025-)
Member of Network of Experts on the Question of Palestine - Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), Jordan (2019-)
Member of Board, Frictional Humanitarian Homebuilding - Swedish Sivil Society Actors in the Occupied Palestinian Territories from 1967 to the present - Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University (2023-)
Member of advisory board, the Palestinian Encyclopedia (Palquest), Institue for Palestine Studies (IPS) (2021-)
Co-manager of the research project “Super Camp: Genealogies of humanitarian containment in the Middle East (Norwegian Research Council, 2019-2023)
Editor of "Palestine", SNL Norwegian Online Encyclopedia (2024-)
Participant in project "How to teach Palestine/Israel in Norwegian schools" (UiB, Raftostiftelsen, NLA, 2023-2026)
Member of Prize Comittee, The Rafto prize for Human Rights (2022-2026)
Participant in research project "Invisible Ceiling: Muslim Immigrant Entrepeneurs Navigate Norway’s Financial Environment" (2022-2024)
Co-curator, photo exhibition "More than the humanitarian gaze. Jørgen Grinde’s photography from the Middle East in the 1950s" University of Bergen (2020-2023).
Researcher, "Consequences of the Israeli UNRWA Ban", Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (PRIO, 2024-2025)
Researcher, "UNRWA's funding challenges and services on the West Bank and in Jordan", Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (FAFO 2023)
Lead researcher, "UNRWA funding crisis and the way forward", Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2022)
Team member, Palestine Refugee Policy Forum (2025-)
Member of Network of Experts on the Question of Palestine - Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development (ARDD), Jordan (2019-)
Member of Board, Frictional Humanitarian Homebuilding - Swedish Sivil Society Actors in the Occupied Palestinian Territories from 1967 to the present - Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University (2023-)
Member of advisory board, the Palestinian Encyclopedia (Palquest), Institue for Palestine Studies (IPS) (2021-)
Co-manager of the research project “Super Camp: Genealogies of humanitarian containment in the Middle East (Norwegian Research Council, 2019-2023)