pacification in WordNet English dictionary

1. actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
   pacification  counterinsurgency 
   
2. 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"
   pacification  mollification 
   
3. a treaty to cease hostilities
   "peace came on November 11th"
   peace  peace treaty  pacification