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.
A containment policy would prevent the spread of communism past the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc countries. This theory became the basis for the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine constituted the United States' foreign policy for the next 45 years - throughout the Cold War.