Pacification may refer to: The restoration of peace through a declaration or peace treaty: *

Pacification of Ghent The Pacification of Ghent, signed on 8 November 1576, was an alliance between the provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands. The main objectives were to remove Spanish mercenaries who had made themselves hated by all sides due to their plundering, and ...

, an alliance of several provinces of the Netherlands signed on November 8, 1576 *

Treaty of Berwick (1639) The Treaty of Berwick (also known as the Peace of Berwick or the Pacification of Berwick) was signed on 19 June 1639 between England and Scotland. It ended minor hostilities the day before. Archibald Johnston was involved in the negotiations befo ...

, 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 The Pacification of 1917 was a political agreement between liberals and socialists on the left and some Christian parties on the right in the Netherlands, ending both the suffrage issue and the school struggle. The Christian parties involved wo ...

, between religious and secular sects in the Netherlands A military or police action: *

Pacification of Algeria The Pacification of Algeria was a series of military operations after the French conquest of the Regency of Algiers that aimed to put an end to various tribal rebellions, razzias and massacres of French settlers that were sporadically held in ...

(1835-1903), French military operations which aimed to put an end to various tribal rebellions *

Occupation of Araucanía The Occupation of Araucanía or Pacification of Araucanía (1861–1883) was a series of military campaigns, agreements and penetrations by the Chilean army and settlers into Mapuche territory which led to the incorporation of Araucanía into Ch ...

(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) The Pacification of Ukrainians in Eastern Galicia was a punitive action against the Ukrainian minority in Poland, carried out by police and military of the Second Polish Republic from September until November 1930 in reaction to a wave of sabotag ...

, a punitive action of Polish police against the Ukrainian minority in Poland *

Pacification of Manchukuo The Pacification of Manchukuo was a Japanese counterinsurgency campaign to suppress any armed resistance to the newly established puppet state of Manchukuo from various anti-Japanese volunteer armies in occupied Manchuria and later the Communis ...

, a campaign during the Second Sino-Japanese War (March 1932-1941) *

Pacification operations in German-occupied Poland The pacification actions in German-occupied Poland during World War II were one of many punitive measures designed to inflict terror on the civilian population of local villages and towns with the use of military and police force. They were an int ...

, the use of German military force to suppress Polish resistance during World War II *

Pacification of Tonkin The Pacification of Tonkin (1886–1896) was a slow and ultimately successful military and political campaign undertaken by the French Empire in the northern portion of Tonkin (modern-day north Vietnam) to re-establish order in the wake of the Tonk ...

, a military and political campaign undertaken by the French in northern Vietnam *

Pacification of Wujek The Pacification of Wujek was a strike-breaking action by the Polish police and army at the Wujek Coal Mine in Katowice, Poland, culminating in the massacre of nine striking miners on December 16, 1981. It was part of a large-scale action aime ...

, a strike-breaking action against miners in Katowice, Poland, 1981 *

Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem The Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem took place in 1894, and is part of the string of Dutch interventions in and around Bali that led to complete colonization of both Bali and Lombok by the early 20th century. Initial alliance The isla ...

or ''Pacification of Lombok'' in 1894 *

Pacification of Libya The Second Italo-Senussi War, also referred to as the Pacification of Libya, was a conflict that occurred during the Italian colonization of Libya between Italian military forces (composed mainly of colonial troops from Libya, Eritrea, and ...

, 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 An insurgency is a violent, armed rebellion against authority waged by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare from primarily rural base areas. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric nature: small irr ...

. * Hearts and Minds (Vietnam) *

Winning hearts and minds __NOTOC__ Winning hearts and minds is a concept occasionally expressed in the resolution of war, insurgency, and other conflicts, in which one side seeks to prevail not by the use of superior force, but by making emotional or intellectual appeals ...

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

violent crime A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objecti ...

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Pacifying Police Unit The Pacifying Police Unit ( pt, Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora, also translated as Police Pacification Unit), abbreviated UPP, is a law enforcement and social services program pioneered in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which aims to recl ...

(Rio State, Brazil) Other meanings: *''

Violent Pacification ''Violent Pacification'' is an EP by the American crossover thrash band D.R.I., which was released in 1984. The title track on this EP was covered by thrash metal band Slayer on their 1996 album "Undisputed Attitude". Track listing ;''Dirty R ...

'' 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)

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