Writing in The Huffington Post in August, Mr. Muggah argued that while "there are many serious shortcomings of the U.P.P. experiment," a "crisis of credibility is occurring at precisely the moment when evidence shows that pacification works".
Marco Antonio de Britto Lomanto, Embartur's director of products and destinations, adds that the pacification work in the favelas shows just how seriously Brazil takes its security preparations ahead of the World Cup.
American and South Vietnamese forces were supposed to be "pacifying" South Vietnam — that is, ridding rural areas of armed opposition to the government — and American officers consistently submitted reports saying that pacification was working.
He believed that the C.I.A.'s pacification programs were working in Vietnam, and that the American effort just ran out of time.
Holbrooke arrived in Vietnam in 1963, and worked on the pacification effort in the Lower Mekong Delta.
Pinker calls this the "pacification process".
Such a local pacification process was set to begin in Ituri last week.
Christian was demobilized when his group was integrated into the national army, part of an ongoing pacification process.
Lieutenant Colonel Anistranski, the officer in charge of the Americal's civil-affairs and pacification program, explained in his interview with me how the system worked.
Thereafter he worked for the creation of a "third party," under the Elector of Saxony, to hold the balance between the imperial court and the encroachment of Sweden, France, and Spain, and for a plan of general pacification.
