Knot.: Holding Inherited Conflict Without Annihilation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798295501739)

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 pressure fields that collapse complexity into certainty, spectacle, and erasure. Drawing from trauma psychology, moral philosophy, media dynamics, and lived consequence, 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.