Pacification

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Pacification may refer to:

The restoration of peace through a declaration or peace treaty:

A military or police action:

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.

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

Other meanings:

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