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.
The West, primarily the U.S. simply maintained the status quo with their policy of containment so that Communism didnât speak significantly into other parts of the world. The freedom of West Berlin was an example of the will of the West to maintain that containment. Other examples were not as successful, specifically the war in Viet Nam, which was also viewed by the U.S. as a war to establish Communist regimes in all of Southeast Asia.