Pacification

Pacification may refer to:

The process or act of making peace or making someone or something quiet and peaceful.

The restoration of peace through a peace treaty

• Pacification of Berwick, signed on June 18, 1639 between England and Scotland
• Pacification Sejm, a session of the Sejm in 1736 concluding the civil war in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

A military or police action or process of securing the cooperation or surrender of a population through military force or other forms of coercion. (A usage which may be an euphemism for war and mass murder).

• Pacification of the Araucanía (1861–1883), the Chilean term for the actions which led to the incorporation of Araucanía into Chile
• Pacification of Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia (1930), punitive action of Polish police against Ukrainian minority in Poland in response to acts of sabotage against Polish Property.
• Pacification of Manchukuo, a campaign during the Second Sino-Japanese War which took place from March 1932 until 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 slow, military and political campaign undertaken by the French in northern Vietnam.
• Pacification of Wujek, a strike-breaking action by the communist forces against miners in Katowice, Poland, on December 16, 1981

A declaration or decree to put an end to civil conflict (historical usage)

• Pacification of Ghent, an alliance of several provinces of the Netherlands signed on November 8, 1576
• Pacification of 1917, between religious and secular sects in the Netherlands
• Pacification of Castile, the re-establishment of Catholic Monarchs' rule in 15th Century Spain

Music

• Violent Pacification an album by Dirty Rotten Imbeciles.

Other

• Army of Cuban Pacification Medal (1906–1909), medal issued members of the United States occupation force in Cuba following the Spanish-American War.