pacification

n. placation; act of quieting; act of calming

Pacification may refer to:the process or act of making peace or making someone or something quiet and peaceful; ora military or police action to disarm combatants. In colonial times it often referred to the conquest and subjugation of a people opposing a colonial power, especially in the term 'pacification expedition', which may be used as a euphemism for war.
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Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) mollification
(hypernym) appeasement, calming
(derivation) pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle
2. a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th"
(synonym) peace, peace treaty
(hypernym) treaty, pact, accord
(hyponym) Peace of Westphalia
(derivation) pacify
3. actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
(synonym) counterinsurgency
(hypernym) conflict, struggle, battle

n. pacification, pacifying

(n.)
The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.