KNOT. A Learning Edition: Holding Conflict Without Breaking - Paperback

KNOT. is not a book about solutions.

It is a book about why solutions keep failing.

Focusing on inherited conflicts

-especially Israel/Palestine-

Laurie S. Sherman examines the moral and psychological

pressures fields that collapse complexity into certainty,

spectacle and erasure. Drawing from trauma psychology,

tahrir, ahimsa, yin-yang dynamics, and nervous

system science, she names the patterns

that turn grief into grievance

and care into annihilation.

This is not neutrality.

It is not balance-as-performance.

KNOT. argues for holding: the disciplined capacity to remain

ethical, present, and human inside conflicts with no clean

exit-when clarity seduces, pressure escalates,

and disappearance is demanded.

Hope, here, is not optimism.

It is capacity