The phrase "an effort to normalize" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing attempts to make something more accepted or standard within a particular context or society.
Example: "The organization launched an effort to normalize mental health discussions in the workplace."
Alternatives: "a push to standardize" or "an attempt to make acceptable".
More than 50 years after the U.S.-imposed embargo, President Obama just announced an effort to normalize ties with Cuba.
More than 50 years after the U.S.-imposed embargo, President Obama has announced an effort to normalize ties with Cuba.
Nevertheless, negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia continued throughout the year in an effort to normalize relations between them.
"It's precisely there that we must make an effort, to normalize the Muslim reality as a religious reality and integrate it into the French cultural space".
In an effort to normalize its relations with the West, the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, announced last December that his country was renouncing chemical, biological and nuclear arms.
But he said he opposed all engagement with Israel and saw the film as part of an effort to normalize Israel and make the Lebanese people stop seeing it as an enemy.
The group says the efforts to openly display handguns at restaurants and coffee shops are part of a national effort to "normalize the carrying of guns in public places".
Implementation of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor mustakeke place, with a parallel effort to normalize trade relations with India.
Kevin Sabet, co-founder of the anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, said that while people are changing their minds, they are doing so because of a "multimillion-dollar effort" to normalize marijuana.
In recent months, Vietnam has been engaged in a sustained diplomatic effort to normalize relations with China and prevent another crisis in the disputed areas, especially in the light of the oil rig crisis in the South China Sea this year, which sparked huge protests in Vietnam and placed the two countries on the verge of armed confrontation.
In 2009, a crowd gathered outside the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, where he was staying during a state visit, to protest his effort to normalize relations with Turkey.
