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n. The act of pacifying or the condition of being pacified; appeasement.

n. Reduction, as of a rebellious district, to peaceful submission: "Real pacification is hard to get in the Vietnamese countryside” ( McGeorge Bundy).

n. Practical measures or policy aiming to effect this type of submission.

n. A peace treaty: the Pacification of Ghent.

n. The process of pacifying.

n. The process of calming, settling and taking control over an object, person or situation.

n. The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.

n. The act of pacifying or reducing to a state of peace; appeasement; reconciliation; the establishment of peaceful relations or of a condition of peace.

n. the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined

n. actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

n. a treaty to cease hostilities

"With Rio gearing up to host the 2014 World Cup final and the 2016 Olympics, authorities have embarked upon a so-called "pacification" scheme, permanently occupying over a dozen slums and evicting the drug traffickers' private armies."

calming    appeasement    battle    struggle    conflict   

edicts of pacification   

reconciliation   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

subjugation    cession    annexation    reconciliation    colonization    colonisation    reformation    arbitration    restoration    unification