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.
Presidential Leadership in the Cold War. Long before becoming president, Ronald Reagan claimed the prevailing policies of containment and dÃ©tente would not bring a satisfactory end to the Cold War. The objective of containment was to stop the Soviet Union from forcibly spreading communism beyond the territories it already ruled or dominated.