pacification vs calming

pacification and calming both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
pacification	Yes	No	No	No
calming	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, calming is a hypernym of pacification; that is, calming is a word with a broader meaning than pacification:

pacification: the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined
calming: the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)

Other hypernyms of pacification include appeasement.

pacification (noun)	calming (noun)
the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined	the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency
a treaty to cease hostilities