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.
Answer Wiki. Containment and brinkmanship were separate US Cold War policies that dominated US foreign policy for the first 15 years of the Cold War. Containment was the concept of preventing the spread of communism, first in Europe, then East Asia, then around the world in the Middle East, Africa, and Larin America.