pacify
For the British Army, pacification in the colonies became a way of life.
They see the country's pacification as part of a larger goal to bring democracy.
The government claimed to support pacification.

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Examples of pacification

pacification
Moreover, they all shared the same underlying objective of social pacification.
As considerations of security became less imperative, after colonial pacification, smaller units could (and indeed did) settle on their own.
Politics should, to begin with, facilitate the achievement of pacification, but beyond that it should enable a constitutional settlement to be secured.
The goal of conquest, or pacification, was the creation of a common civil discipline.
If the consumer commodity was in the eighteenth century ' ' a form of pacification ' ' (75), he implies, it is even more so now.
While it did not lead to effective pacification of the region, new political dynamics were unleashed.
But with the pacification of the prairies the mythmaking intensified, no longer tethered to any visible reality.
What were the sources of support for the regime in the border regions 21/2 decades after brutal annexation and pacification campaigns?
By the early eighteenth century the ' pacification ' of reading had begun.
But formal annexation early in 1886 only provoked further resistance, and for several years tens of thousands of imperial troops were engaged in a vicious war of pacification.
The acceptance of these reforms by a national convention made possible the application of the constitution at a national level and the gradual pacification of the country.
This process of state reconstruction was also a process of pacification, as it represented an attempt to (re)build states on the foundations of the military settlement of the war.
Rather, while mentioning the increased safety brought about by colonial pacification which allowed such movements, they stressed the need for farm land and the repressiveness of the colonial regime.
A major question which scholars are now beginning to address seriously is the motivation and effectiveness of the edicts of pacification which punctuated the religious wars.
It is important to create our own pool of skills in the field of humanitarian operations, peacekeeping and pacification missions and crisis management.
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