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• n  the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
  a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants
• n  a treaty to cease hostilities
• n  actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency

• Pre-Tet, me pacification program embraced fewer than 300 of the corps' 4,000 hamlets.
• In theory, of course, pacification is supposed to provide the poorest and least-educated segment of Vietnamese society with much more than just security against Communists.
• Decades of worthless treaties, search-and-destroy missions, pacification programs, enforced relocations and free-fire zones ended there.

• mollification
• peace
• peace treaty
• counterinsurgency

News & Articles

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• Pope calls for social change in Brazil but are politicians listening?
  Pope Francis has frequently been lauded for his humility and regard for the poor, but after criticizing Brazil's slum pacification policy he may be moving beyond rhetoric.
  July 26, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor

Quotes

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• Benazir Bhutto in AFP
  The money that has gone into Pakistan so far has not led to the pacification of the tribal areas where people are desperately poor and the militants exploit this poverty to hire them as soldiers,Bhutto said Saturday. "Our people have been...
• Ban Ki-moon in UN News Centre
  We are consulting with the African Union and the member states. They are still needed for their support in the pacification and stabilisation of the country. We would like the military observers and peacekeepers to come in to help us as soon as... Ali Mohamed Gedi http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Mohammed_Ghedi&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEypqHBsH4UVPEsdjOF561Y02TGhg ABC Online http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200701/s1820142.htm&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEYcubHGqUeYds1XYOSuU1WUcBm1Q Jan 1, 2007 71551 95612 pacification Much as been accomplished since the arrival of MONUC in 1999, including the pacification of much of the territory, the holding of democratic elections [and] the creation of State institutions," Mr. Ban said.