J. Frederick Arment

J. Frederick Arment is an author, former teacher, and serves as Executive Director of International Cities of Peace, a global NGO in Consultative Status with the United Nations. He lives with family and friends in Dayton, Ohio where after an early career in education he founded a successful writing and marketing firm and began lecturing at Wilberforce College and Wright State University. Arment's novels include the philosophical orphan's tale, "Backbeat: A Novel of Physics," and a political thriller, "The Synthesis." His nonfiction work, "The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works," is included in the McFarland Academic Publishers' catalog of peace and conflict resolution selections. In 2014, McFarland released "The Economics of Peace: Freedom, the Golden Rule and the Broadening of Prosperity," which details how the Golden Rule can be infused into our economic and governing systems.

In his not-for-profit work, Arment works around the world with organizations that foster a positive approach to peace building and community revitalization. He is one of the founders and served as the first director of the Dayton International Peace Museum, a nonprofit organization dedicated to nonviolent alternatives to community and worldwide conflict. In 2009, he founded International Cities of Peace, a member association of cities of peace dedicated to encouraging safety, prosperity, and quality of life as consensus values for families, neighborhoods, and nations.

Arment has also served as a first reader for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and on the steering committee for the Salem Avenue Peace Corridor vitalization initiative. Arment was a board member of the Antioch Writers' Workshop and associated with several publishing companies specializing in fiction, including FictionNet and Blue Hot Books. Recently, he was tapped to provide strategic positioning consultation for the Honolulu-based international Center for Global Nonkilling.

After earning a bachelor of science degree in history education at Wright State University, Arment received a masters in humanities with a focus on the eighteenth-century American and French Enlightenment period. His post-graduate study and publications have focused on the integrated disciplines of philosophy, peace, physics, and community redevelopment.