J. Frederick Arment is an author, lecturer and founder of the peacebuilding organization, International Cities of Peace. As Chair of the Board for the nonprofit NGO, Cities of Peace, Inc., he mentors peace leadership in over 400 member Cities of Peace in 75 nations on all six continents.
Arment’s nonfiction works include “The Elements of Peace: How Nonviolence Works” (2012), and “The Economics of Peace: Freedom, the Golden Rule, and Broadening Prosperity” (2015), both published by McFarland Academic Publishers. His novels include “Backbeat: A Novel of Physics” (2005) and “The Synthesis” (2012). His spirituality is encapsulated in the philosophical treatise, “The Physics of Spirit: Four Energetic Propositions to Enliven the Human Condition”. Arment also edited “How Nature Created Matter”, authored by wave technologist Timothy G. Waterman and published in 2020.
After an early career as a teacher, Arment founded a successful strategic marketing firm and began lecturing at Wilberforce College and Wright State University. In 2003, Arment was of the five founders and the first director of the International Peace Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Later, he served as a first reader for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and on the steering committee for the Salem Avenue Peace Corridor. Among other initiatives, Arment was coordinator for the PEACE DAYton Collaborative Group and provided strategic positioning consultation for the Honolulu-based international Center for Global Nonkilling.
In 2017 as the result of an International Cities of Peace alliance for Southeast Asia, Arment was engaged pro bono as Distinguished Researcher for the Institute for National Memory and International Peace Studies. In 2018, he was keynote for the Annual Candlelight Vigil held during the Memorial Hall commemoration of the Nanjing Massacre of 1938. In 2019, he was distinguished as an Honorary Citizen of Nanjing, China, and endeavors to open new channels of communication to peacemakers in that region.
Arment holds from Wright State University a Bachelor of Science in History Education and a Masters of 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, physics, peace and community vitalization.
Contact email: arment@fredarment.com