PACIFICATION

• (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

  synonyms : counterinsurgency

• (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined

  "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants", "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"

  synonyms : mollification

• (noun) a treaty to cease hostilities

  "peace came on November 11th"

  synonyms : peace , peace treaty

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