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Pacify; Pacifying; Pacification (disambiguation)

Pacification         
·noun The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.
pacification         
n.
Tranquillization, reconciliation, reconcilement, accommodation, appeasement.
pacification         
see pacify

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Pacification

Pacification may refer to:

The restoration of peace through a declaration or peace treaty:

  • Pacification of Ghent, an alliance of several provinces of the Netherlands signed on November 8, 1576
  • Treaty of Berwick (1639), or Pacification of Berwick, signed on June 18, 1639 between England and Scotland
  • Pacification sejm, one of several sessions of the Sejm, especially the one in 1736 concluding the civil war in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • Pacification of 1917, between religious and secular sects in the Netherlands

A military or police action:

  • Pacification of Algeria (1835-1903), French military operations which aimed to put an end to various tribal rebellions
  • Occupation of Araucanía (1861–1883), also Pacification of the Araucanía, the actions which led to the incorporation of Araucanía into Chile
  • Pacification of Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia (1930), a punitive action of Polish police against the Ukrainian minority in Poland
  • Pacification of Manchukuo, a campaign during the Second Sino-Japanese War (March 1932-1941)
  • Pacification operations in German-occupied Poland, the use of German military force to suppress Polish resistance during World War II
  • Pacification of Tonkin, a military and political campaign undertaken by the French in northern Vietnam
  • Pacification of Wujek, a strike-breaking action against miners in Katowice, Poland, 1981
  • Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem or Pacification of Lombok in 1894
  • Pacification of Libya, a military against by the Royal Italian Army against the Libyan resistance

An analytic approach to understanding the security-industrial complex:

A military, political, economic, and social process of establishing or reestablishing control by a government over a population impacted and divided by insurgency.

  • Hearts and Minds (Vietnam)
  • Winning hearts and minds

A policing, military, political, economic, and social process of establishing or reestablishing control by a government over a population impacted by violent crime.

  • Pacifying Police Unit (Rio State, Brazil)

Other meanings:

  • Violent Pacification an album by Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
  • Army of Cuban Pacification Medal, medal issued to members of the US occupation force in Cuba following the Spanish–American War (1906–1909)
Pronunciation examples for pacification
1. Notably, urban pacification and riot control.
Hot Fuzz (2007)
2. Behind those doors is a UPV, urban pacification vehicle.
Resident Evil (2010)
3. I call the pacification process. Until 5,000 years ago, people everywhere lived in a state
The Stuff of Thought - Language as a Window into Human Nature _ Steven Pinker _ Talks at Google
4. for nonstate societies. This gap is what I call the pacification process. This subsequent
The Stuff of Thought - Language as a Window into Human Nature _ Steven Pinker _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of pacification
1. Examining Russia‘s pacification of Chechnya may prove helpful.
2. The second phase pacification has also been largely accomplished.
3. The evidence for the pacification of Balochistan is not strong.
4. Four phases The Iraq mission could be seen in four phases÷ liberation, pacification, reconstruction and democratisation.
5. But the presence of the Taliban in Quetta complicates the issue of the province’s pacification.