What causes people to abuse? What are the experiences of those who are abused? What about those with limited or no voice? How do systems of abuse affect the greater community? What connection is there between abuse and resilience? What happens when abuse goes unchecked? This project endeavours to explore abuse in its many forms across a range of critical, contextual, and cultural perspectives. Seeking to encourage innovative dialogues, we warmly welcome papers and projects that demonstrate the struggle to understand abuse and its impact on the individual, familial, cultural, community, and global level.