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.
In 1946 the Soviet Union also stirred up communist rebellions in Greece and Turkey. President Truman and his advisors developed a policy called containment aimed at keeping communists bottled up. </b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The purpose of containment was simple. Keep the communists where they were. This policy, of course, did not work. Containment only leads to more conflict. Answer 5/29/2011<br />(stop communist expansion)<br /><br /><br /><b>Soon after the end of World War II, it became clear that the Soviet Union was going to try to expand its territory.