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 was a United States policy uniting military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to limit the spread of Communism, enhance Americaâs security and influence abroad, and prevent a domino effect. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment.