0 present participle of pacify
1 to cause someone who is angry or upset to be calm and satisfied:
2 to bring peace to a place or end war in a place, often using military force:
He claimed that trade reduces the incentives for conflict, and this pacifying effect of trade would diminish rapidly with a larger number of countries.
The offering might be accepted, pacifying the deity, or rejected as insufficient or of the wrong kind, angering the deity.
Institutions and policies probably do sometimes change when leaders of conflicting classes reassess the costs of conflict and accept pacifying compromises of lesser cost.
When states in a dispute do not have any outside politically relevant allies, their alliance definitely has a pacifying effect.
Recent evidence, in fact, suggests that the pacifying affect of democracy may be conditional on the level of development.
Liberal theory emphasizes the pacifying effects of democratization, economic development and international organizations.
Thus, we are able to demonstrate that the pacifying effect of democracy in combination with development extends to rival states, the most conflict prone dyads in the international system.
Second, bioethics is often regarded as a specific technology itself, aimed at resolving or at least "pacifying" the moral consequences of the use of medical technologies.
