Pacification

Pacification may refer to:

The restoration of peace through a declaration or peace treaty:

  • Pacification of Ghent, an alliance of several provinces of the Netherlands signed on November 8, 1576
  • Treaty of Berwick (1639), 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, between religious and secular sects in the Netherlands

A military or police action:

  • Pacification of Algeria (1835-1903), French military operations which aimed to put an end to various tribal rebellions
  • Occupation of Araucanía (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, 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 (December 16, 1981)
  • Dutch intervention in Lombok and Karangasem or Pacification of Lombok in 1894

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)