From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pacification \Pa*cif`i*ca"tion\, n. [L. pacificatio: cf. F.
pacification. See Pacify.]
The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between
parties at variance; reconciliation. "An embassy of
pacification." --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pacification
n 1: 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" [syn: pacification, mollification]
2: a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th"
[syn: peace, peace treaty, pacification]
3: actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency [syn:
pacification, counterinsurgency]