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 Cuban Missile Crisis was a propaganda victory for the United States and an undisclosed blow to containment. Some may contend that since the Soviet Union ultimately fell, the policy of containment was successful. This is an overly generous statement.