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“The Status Quo Staircase” is a metaphor for a symbolic and physical order that emerges in areas where social political or religious conflicts have been frozen in place by entrenched solutions. This concept has been conceptualized through a simple wooden ladder that has remained motionless for over a century on a windowsill at the front of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem — a structure whose shared use regime was established by an Ottoman firman of 1852 and has endured to the presen