But now, Colombia's new law-and-order president, Álvaro Uribe, has embarked on a pacification of Comuna 13 that officials say could become a model for other big cities hard hit by a 38-year-old conflict.
However, in a fair and socially balanced society, it is needed conciliation of different interests that allows a pacification of social conflicts to achieve a stage of peace, one of the principles of the Federative Republic of Brazil in International Relations - 4th article of its Constitution (BRASIL, 1988, w.p).
The campaign is an expansion of a police "pacification program" that began in late 2008.
The gangs' reign ended suddenly on 26 November 2010 when the army, in the first step of a systematic "pacification" of the favelas, invaded Complexo de Alemao.
Violence also remains an issue in the community, despite the installation of a police pacification unit, known as a UPP, in the favela in 2010.
Pavao-Pavaozinho is one of the poor districts of Rio that has been part of a police "pacification" programme, in which the security forces move into an area in an effort to wrest control from the drug traffickers who run it.
In 1679, Louis XIV of France dictated the terms of a general pacification, and Charles XI, who is said to have bitterly resented "the insufferable tutelage" of the French king, was forced at last to acquiesce to a peace that managed to leave his empire practically intact.
Christian was demobilized when his group was integrated into the national army, part of an ongoing pacification process.
As his chronicle approaches the dawn of the 20th century, the Indian menace has virtually disappeared from Texas–more a function of casualties than of any policy of pacification or compromise.
In India — whose three hundred million made up nearly three-fourths of the Empire's population (and a fifth of the world's in 1900) — the conditions of pacification (an army of two hundred thousand) permanently stunted economic growth through the sheer weight of land revenues needed to fund it.
Such a global view provides new insights into American-style community development, specifically how a double system of pacification was an integral part of this approach to urban policy.
