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 Habsburg Spain, Spanish mercenaries who had made themselves hated by all sides due to their ...

, 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 an agreement between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, signed on 18 June 1639, which ended the First Bishops' War. Peace lasted l ...

, 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 (Netherlands), school struggle. The ...

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Pacification of Algeria The pacification of Algeria, also known as the Algerian genocide, refers to violent military operations between 1830 and 1875 during the French conquest of Algeria, that often involved ethnic cleansing, massacres and forced displacement, aimed a ...

(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 military and settlers into Mapuche territory which led to the incorporation of Araucanía i ...

(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), 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 Co ...

, a campaign during the Second Sino-Japanese War (March 1932-1941) * Pacification operations in German-occupied Poland, the use of German military force to suppress Polish resistance during World War II * Pacification of Tonkin, a military and political campaign undertaken by the French in northern Vietnam * Pacification of Wujek, 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 is ...

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 by colonial troops from Libya, Eritrea, and S ...

, 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 by small, lightly armed bands who practice guerrilla warfare against a larger authority. The key descriptive feature of insurgency is its asymmetric warfare, asymmetric nature: small irregular forces ...

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Hearts and Minds (Vietnam) Hearts most commonly refers to: * Hearts (card game), a trick-taking game ** Black Lady, a common variant of Hearts * Hearts (suit), one of the standard four suits of cards * Heart, an organ Hearts may also refer to: Music * The Hearts, an Amer ...

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 intelligence, intelle ...

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 (law), force upon a victim. This entails both crimes in which the violence, vio ...

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

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