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Preventing Social and Political Corruption:

The Declaration of Caracas as an Innovation

by C. Gallagher


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Preventing Social and Political Corruption 2

Table of Contents

Considerations: the Kind of Research that Will Solve a Problem in My Company ....................... 3

The Selected Problem that will be addressed through Applied Research ...................................... 4

A Short Introduction to the Research: Why this Topic Is Important; My Role .............................. 4

Literature Review: In Respect to Interviews about the Declaration of Caracas ............................. 5

Knowledge: Deweys InfluenceYale University and the Declaration of Caracas ...................... 6

Application of Deweys Influence and the Declaration of Caracas ................................................ 6

References ....................................................................................................................................... 8


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Preventing Social and Political Corruption

The Declaration of Caracas as an Innovation

Considerations: the Kind of Research that Will Solve a Problem in My CompanyInterviews conducted informally from our literature table and by phone have provided

information that is the focus of a literature search, a related literature review, and further

informal interviews. The informal interviews have already resulted in an article that we are

circulating in our periodical about current applications of the Declaration of Caracas to preventsocial and political corruption, and that involve the mandatory inseparability of education and

government. The research that will benefit my company will instruct students and their

communities about problems that exist about the (1) knowledge and (2) application of the

Declaration of Caracas. Pertaining to educational and cultural programs that strive to surmountobstacles in disadvantaged regions, the Declaration of Caracas embraces ideals that form

humanitarian and political policies, which are the focus of the Yale Law Schools Avalon Project

( Sklar, Hagen, & Yale Law School, 2008) that began through the derivation of the document onMarch 28, 1954. However, the importance of the document as guiding policy in law, history,

and diplomacy ( Sklar, Hagen, & Yale Law School, 2008) remains rather esoteric, as informal

interviews indicate. Therefore, Applied Research in this area is substantiated by the value of thisresearch to correct imminent reactions of students and their communities to the current

technological revolution, a sign of social instability and corruption that impedes their well-being,

and that they believe should be corrected. Work that strives to prevent social and political

corruption is important to the students and communities that this applied research will address.

Thus far, the distributed and promoted literature about the document and related literaturehas resulted in a precedent of donated equipment and instruction to our company and to the

disadvantaged communities that it serves. Although application of the Declaration indicates aneffective solution to the struggles of technologically deprived communities, the levels of

knowledge and effective application of the values and policy that the document upholds vary

considerably among the company and associated members. Research methods will continue

through informal interviews that may also include a brief questionnaire and survey. Intervieweesdo unanimously voice the need for a solution to social corruption, which today is evident as

media terrorism and a digital divide as a consequence of disadvantaged areas in Africa, for

example, and in Latin America and other deprived regions where penal systems need to beenforced effectively, and where drug traffic must be prevented. The applied research should

result in a solution in the Bay Area, where public relations involve higher education, literacy,knowledge, and access to news, issues that are not valued by those who may be distracted by

more immediate disadvantaging needs.Reports about the Declaration of Caracas involve Applied Research in the collection,

analysis, and interpretation of statistical data as described in Practical Research (Leedy &

Ormrod, 2010), which improve understanding about the integrity and socio-economic

development that relate to instructional and publishing occupations. Because the solution to theproblem involves knowledge and application of the Declaration, short-term outcomes of related


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research support the theory that one malignant side of computer dependency compels a digital

divide between those with computer access and those in disadvantaged areas where computers

are virtually nonexistent (Enders, 2006). This digital divide is a form of social and politicalcorruption that conscientious scholars in law, philosophy, political science, and the humanities

strive to correct.The research will be like action research because it includes the collection, analyses, and

interpretation of data relevant to effective intervention that extends beyond the banner of

qualitative and quantitative research, which excludes remote and under-represented populations

as described in Enhancing the Worth of Instructional Technology Research through Design

Experiments and Other Development Research Strategies (Reeves, 2008). The informalinterviews, brief questionnaire, and survey will involve several issues that pertain to the concepts

and the application of the Declaration. Will the interviews, questionnaires, and surveys result in

increased percentages of individuals who are knowledgeable about the Declaration and itsfoundation? If we apply this action (knowledge and application of the Declaration) to our

communications and public/learner relations, will value for our work improve? Will reactive

problems associated with social and political corruption begin to subside? If we act according tothe knowledge, related procedures, and actions of the Declaration (SPECIFIC ACTION), weshould achieve a better result (GENERAL EFFECT). This inductive reasoning will follow our

implementation of the Declaration in our collaboration, writing, and negotiations with

customer/learner relations through our Applied Research.

The Selected Problem that will be addressed through Applied Research

The selected problem involves the knowledge and application of the Declaration of

Caracas as follows:

(1) Knowledge: The level at which individuals are educated in the Declaration of Caracas varies

critically. I have conducted informal interviews to determine the varying levels of knowledge ofthose who might be acquainted with the topic;

(2) Application: The level of success that individuals achieve as they apply their knowledge of

the Declaration does vary considerably. Because application involves concepts that may correctconsequences of social and political corruption, follow-up interviews are important to determine

its impact and any need for further application, related research, and instruction.

A Short Introduction to the Research: Why this Topic Is Important; My Role

Functioning as a precedent, information already exists to substantiate the validity of

further Applied Research in this area. Important groups such as the National Organization on

Disabilities and the Latin American Journalists Federation (FELAP) have reviewed problems indisadvantaged areas where they have consequently provided controlled computer access,

instruction, and improved educational standards. Access to news and information is essential to

effective public policy; however, policy involves conditions that, when uncontrolled, lead to theinability of deprived individuals to access important information, another sign of social

corruption. During Katrina, for example, when victims of national disaster were unable to access

news, important communications systems, food, and rest, they looted and pillaged stores and

homes, many which had been devastated--another sign of social and political dysfunction that


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many regard as corruption. Applied Research in respect to the Declaration of Caracas refers to

knowledge and applications of the values and policy that promote humanitarian social policy.

The research will reveal other applied research in disadvantaged regions (Kaye, 2000). IfFELAP is exemplary of successful levels of knowledge and application of the values and policies

of the document, my company and its communities should exemplify similar results.This topic is important to my organization because it involves access to web-based news;

therefore, research of the Declaration of Caracas remains developmentalit includes action

goals and constructive principles essential to future design; furthermore, the research involves

interpretation and observations of interviewee reactions as defined by the course author (Smith,2010). As the researcher and reporter systematically canvass the components of question or

scrutiny, he/she develops refined questions, action plans, and methods, as well as new

understandings (Cunningham, 2008, 3). The Declaration has influenced not only FELAP; it has

motivated diplomats and engineers to the industrial programming of power sources, includingpetroleum, solar, and wind turbine. Because it focuses on the improvement of living standards

and the correction of problems that compel destitution, such as the inability to be informed about

important news and policy and the associated lack of computers, the Declaration is essential tothe integrity of the reporting and publishing industry, and to associated educational systems andstandards. The Declaration refers to the improvement of external conditions and the

maintenance of dignity, qualities that researchers easily assess through questionnaires and

surveys; therefore, the problem involving social and political corruption is being measured andcorrected through standards defined by the Declaration of Caracas. Through the primary Editor

of a Berkeley based company that is experiencing the current economic depression due to

cutbacks in education and downfalls about the current technological revolution, I have learned ofthe need to distribute copies of the document, its foundation, and applications of it, and to

conduct further informal interviews, brief questionnaires, and brief surveys about it.

Literature Review: In Respect to Interviews about the Declaration of Caracas

From its literature table and phones, I began to conduct casual interviews in the vicinity

of Cabrillo College, UCSC, UCSB, and UCB Boalt Law School, Burrows Poly Science building,and near Sproul Plaza Student Union, while I was studying issues in sociology, philosophy, and

psychology. Having completed several years in those fields, I began conducting applied research

regularly that have compelled my discovery of two related problems pertaining to (1) knowledgeand (2) application of the Yale University Avalon Project's Declaration of Caracas. Both focus

on the importance of the work of Dr. John Dewey (1859-1952) to prevent social corruption. The

literature review involves results of the interviews and related literature search--accurate

knowledge that overwhelming percentages of individuals should know in respect to the

relationship of education and government, which Dewey and Yale University address (Dewey,1938, 1997; Dewey & Small, 1897; 2006; Sklar, Hagen, & Yale Law School, 2008; Westbrook,

1993; Berube, 2000; Stuhr, 2006).

The results of the interviews indicate a fallacy that misinformed individuals maintainabout the relationship between education and governmentjournalism, political science, and law

that Deweys work clarifies (Dewey, 1938, 1997; Ryan, 1997; Westbrook, 1993). A problem

directly pertains to the ability to apply that knowledge, and corresponds with the 2.56% of theUCB student body (UC Regents, 2011) and less than 1% of the entire populace that are


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knowledgeable about the value of the Avalon Project. In fact, the Project directly supports

Deweys work that compels institutional stability and higher education as a lifelong solution to

political corruption (Westbrook, 1993; Ryan, 1997; Berube, 2000; Stuhr, 2006). Myorganization is circulating an article that addresses this literature review, and that should result in

increased knowledge within our communities about Dewey and the Avalon Project's Declaration.

Knowledge: Deweys InfluenceYale University and the Declaration of Caracas

Less than 1% of Americans have learned of the trials of WWI and WWII that motivatedpsychologists, philosophers, humanists, and educators such as Dewey to further educational-

governmental reform. Yale University recognized him as an innovative mentor, and awarded

him the Doctor "honoris causa" just before his death (Westbrook, 1993), and shortly before Yale

Law School derived the Avalon Project's Declaration of Caracas. Resulting in a paradigm shift to

educate the entire individual intellectually, morally, socially, and aesthetically, Deweys workwas instrumental in the overall restructure of our educational system (Berube, 2000), which was

based in part on the joint participation of an individual with the rest of nature (Dewey & Bentley,1949). Interviews reveal that most communities are unaware of Deweys work about the socialforces that each individual must create and manage through an empirical method and an inquiry

into human affairs to ensure individual happiness and community cooperation (Stuhr, 2006).

A problem prevails about the fallacy involving the state and academic institution thatDewey did address as he compelled others to focus on issues that directly involve effective

diplomatic relations, which are important to higher education because they require studies in law

and political science. Many psychology students are introduced to Deweys research andobservations; yet, they do not learn how he influenced journalism and civil society, especially

through his investigation of the 1936-37 Moscow Trials (Dewey, 1938; 1997) and his

participation in American laboratory schools when Stalin had compelled many to flee Europe

(Westbrook, 1993). In fact, as he indicates, even Confucianism, the Ancient Greeks, and theRoman Cicero addressed the importance of education and a related governmental structure

(Dewey, 1938; 1997) to maintain a conscientious and stable society parted from the ethics of

class-divided society (Ryan, 1997). Contesting "isms," the inchoate curriculum, excessive

individualism, and related spontaneity as a deceptive index of freedom, (Dewey, 1938; 1997,10), Dewey innovated reform of the institution to unify both education and government to

prevent social and political corruption (Westbrook, 1993).

Application of Deweys Influence and the Declaration of Caracas

Directly associated with knowledge of the Declaration is the application of it. The

application of the Declaration involves political and philosophy-psychology scholars who haveinfluenced effective outcomes, such as the prevention of social corruption (Berube, 2000).

Numerous examples are addressed; for example, the individual right to enjoy the environment

and its optimal development free from drug traffic; and a beneficial penal system (IASCT, 1998).Numerous related applications have developed in respect to the articles established in the

Declaration, which reaffirm the fundamental principles and goals of the Charter of the

Organization of American States, The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man,

TheUniversal Declaration of Human Rights, and the "resolutions of the Organization that refer


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to those principles and aims (Skar, Hagen, & Yale Law School, 2008, para. 1). Applications of

the Declaration include model agreements to achieve peace in Southern Africa where political

and economic destabilization has been influenced by apartheid as aggressive actions fromsurrounding and frontline states (Masri, 2000). Additionally, applications have resulted in the

beneficial cooperation among OPEC national oil companies, and in the states of the FreeSoftware Foundation in Latin American (FSFLA) (MESACN, 2005). Furthermore, supporters ofthe Declaration discourage totalitarianism, and they support the National Organization on

Disabilities and the Latin American Journalists Federation (FELAP) (Fuller, 2012), where

Applied Research has resulted in controlled computer access in disadvantaged areas (Kaye,2000).


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