This is about communities - forest communities and people communities. Perhaps the most substantial exercise in bridge-building in the world is the joint project of European integration spearheaded by Jean Monnet after the two bloodiest wars in world history.
containment(noun) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully. containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975.
See Biological containment, Biosafety levels, Regulated waste. containment measures and protocols that are applied to limit contact of organisms, particularly PATHOGENS and GMOs, with the external environment: physical containment, achieved by regulating access, restricting air circulation and providing other physical barriers; see biological containment. Different levels of containment apply depending on the perceived risk of a particular experiment. containment, n psychiatric mode of treatment for patients with conditions with which further deterioration is inevitable.