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.
Containment Truman's policy against Communism was defined by an advisor, George F. Kennan. His policy, called containment, planned to leave Communism where it was already established, yet keep it from spreading to other countries. The policy of containment was applied and tested throughout Truman's administration and the Cold War as well.