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.
an act or policy of restricting the territorial growth or ideological influence of another, especially a hostile nation. 3. (in a nuclear power plant) an enclosure completely surrounding a nuclear reactor, designed to prevent the release of radioactive material in the event of an accident. Origin of containment. 1645-1655.