The act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined:
— A wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants.

synonym: mollification.

Roget 174: moderation, lenity etc. 740; temperateness, gentleness etc. adj.; sobriety; quiet; mental calmness etc. (inexcitability) 826^†.    moderating etc. v.; anaphrodisia^†; relaxation, remission, mitigation, tranquilization^†, assuagement, contemporation^†, pacification.    measure, juste milieu [Fr.], golden mean, ariston metron [Gr.].    moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic, carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk, opium, poppy or mandragora;" wet blanket; palliative.    ... show more

Roget 723: pacification, conciliation; reconciliation, reconcilement; shaking of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment; terms, compromise; amnesty, deed of release.    peace offering; olive branch; calumet of peace, preliminaries of peace.    truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities, stand-down; breathing time; convention; modus vivendi [Lat.]; flag of truce, white flag, parlementaire [Fr.], cartel^†.    hollow truce, pax in bello [Lat.]; drawn battle.    ... show more

Dutch: pacificatie, vredesluiting

A treaty to cease hostilities.

synonyms: peace, peace treaty.

Dutch: vrede
Polish: pokój

Actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency.

synonym: counterinsurgency.